Mark Ford (poet)
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Mark Ford (b. 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet.
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[edit] Life
He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond Roussel. From 1991-1993 he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan.
He is Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.
He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,[1] Times Literary Supplement,[2] and the London Review of Books.[3]
Helen Vendler compared him with John Ashbery.[4]
[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992; 1998)
- Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001/Harcourt Brace, 2003).
- Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011).
[edit] Prose
- A Driftwood Altar (Waywiser Press, 2006).
- Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays (Peter Lang, 2011).
[edit] Anthologies
- New Chatto Poets: Number Two (Chatto & Windus, 1989).
[edit] Biography
- Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2001).
[edit] Translation
- New Impressions of Africa (Princeton University Press, 2011).
[edit] Criticism
- Something we have that they don't: British & American poetic relations since 1925 (University of Iowa Press, 2004).
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9737
- ^ Asthana, Anushka. The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tlskeywordsearch.tls?queryKeywords=mark+ford&x=0&y=0.
- ^ http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mark-ford
- ^ Mark Ford, Steven H. Clark, ed. (2004). "The Circulation of Large Smallnesses". Something we have that they don't: British & American poetic relations since 1925. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9780877458814. http://books.google.com/?id=vVfmcEvHTkcC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=John+Ashbery+and+Helen+Vendler+mark+ford&q=John%20Ashbery%20and%20Helen%20Vendler%20mark%20ford.
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