About the Author

Mark Ford is the author of four collections of poetry: Landlocked (Chatto & Windus,1992), Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001), Six Children (Faber &Faber, 2011), and Enter, Fleeing (Faber & Faber, 2018). He has also published two monographs, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2000) and Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (Harvard University Press, 2016), and is the editor of the anthology London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012). His most recent collection of essays, This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear, 2014), was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. A monograph entitled Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry will be published by Oxford University Press in July. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. A selection of his poetry is available at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mark ford; and an ongoing series of podcasts made with Seamus Perry about twentieth-century poets (including one on John Ashbery and Frank O’Hara) is available on the London Review of Books website https://www.lrb.co.uk