Poetry by Mark Ford
April 1, 2014 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 150 pages • 978-1-56689-362-6
An exuberant, versatile, and complex debut US collection from one of the United Kingdom’s most respected poets.
Mark Ford is widely recognized as one of the UK’s most innovative and exciting poets. This volume, culled from the work of three decades, reveals the full range of his experiments in language and form. Myth, history, and the everyday are entwined in complex, moving poems that deliver, in the words of John Ashbery, “waves and waves of refreshment.” Witty, eloquent, versatile, Ford charts the losses and gains of modern life in poetry of startling beauty and irrepressible humor.
About the Author
Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya 1962. He has published three collections of poetry, and a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel. He was awarded the 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism by the Poetry Foundation for his book This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear, 2014). He has also translated Roussel’s New Impressions of Africa, and is the editor of London: A History in Verse. He lives in London.