Британ ақыны Марк Форд туралы

British poet

Mark Ford (born 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet. He is currently Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya on the 24th June, 1962 to Donald and Mary Ford. His father worked for the airlines BOAC, then British Airways. As a result, he had a peripatetic childhood, moving 'to a new country roughly every 18 months', accompanied by a 'sense of rootlessness or of not belonging'. After school in London, he attended Oxford University, graduating in 1983 with a First in English Literature. He then studied at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, before returning to Oxford to study for his doctorate, writing his thesis on the poetry of John Ashbery, supervised by John Bayley. After a number of years working as an lecturer in Oxford and London, he then moved to Japan, where he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University between 1991 3. Following this appointment, he worked as a freelance writer, principally reviewing poetry for The Guardian. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.

‘John Ashbery and Raymond Roussel’ in Verse (Vol. 3 no. 3, 1986, pp. 1 21). ‘Non Persona: The Diversity of John Ashbery’ in Scripsi (Vol. 8, no. 3, 1993, pp. 225 233). ‘Wanting to Go to Bed With Frank O’Hara’ in Scripsi (Vol. 9, no. 2, 1993, pp. 141 150). ‘A New Kind of Emptiness’ (on John Ashbery) in P. N. Review (Vol. 21, no.1, 1994, pp. 48 50). ‘Genius in its Pure State: The Literary Manuscripts of Raymond Roussel’ in The London Review of Books (Vol. 19, no. 10, 1997, pp. 19 21). ‘Inventions of Solitude: Thoreau and Auster’ in Journal of American Studies (Vol. 32, 1998, pp. 201 219). ‘A Wide and Wingless Path to the Impossible: The Poetry of F. T. Prince’ in P. N. Review (Vol. 29, no. 1, 2002, pp. 31 33). ‘Like a Lily Daché Hat’ (on James Schuyler) in Poetry Review (Vol. 92. no. 3, 2002, pp. 55 62). ‘Elizabeth Bishop at the Water’s Edge’ in Essays in Criticism (Vol. 8, no. 3, July 2003, pp. 235 261). ‘Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Death’s Jest Book’ in Poetry Review (Vol. 93, no. 4, 2004, pp. 52 61). ‘Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary’ in the London Review of Books (Vol. 29, no. 23, 2007, pp. 20 22). ‘Uncollected, Unpublished, Unfinished’ (on the manuscripts of Mick Imlah) in Oxford Poetry (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2010, pp. 49 56). ‘Joan Murray and the Bats of Wisdom’ in Poetry (Vol. 203, no. 5, 2014, pp. 473 488). ‘Entropy with Doxology’ (on A. R. Ammons) in Poetry (Vol. 213, No. 4, 2019, pp. 390 402). ‘She Opened the Door: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry’ in Essays in Criticism (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2020, pp. 139 159, (F. W. Bateson Memorial Lecture)).