Mark Ford

Mark Ford is the editor of London: A History in Verse. His most recent collection of poetry is Six Children.

In the LRB Archive:

• Seven Poems · 18 April 2013

• Mysteries of the City: Baudelaire and Modernity · 21 February 2013

  • Baudelaire: The Complete Verse edited and translated by Francis Scarfe
  • Baudelaire: Paris Blues/Le Spleen de Paris edited and translated by Francis Scarfe
  • Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity by Françoise Meltzer

• Poem: ‘Under the Lime Trees’ · 3 January 2013

• I want to boom: Pound Writes Home · 24 May 2012

  • Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary de Rachewiltz, David Moody and Joanna Moody

• The analyst is always right: Tessimond and Spencer · 17 November 2011

  • Collected Poems with Translations from Jacques Prévert by A.S.J. Tessimond
  • Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer

• Poem: ‘Dithering’ · 14 April 2011

• Petty Grotesques: Whitman · 17 March 2011

  • Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, edited by Ed Folsom

• Door Closing!: Randall Jarrell · 21 October 2010

  • Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy by Randall Jarrell

• Two Poems · 10 June 2010

• Poem: ‘Gregory of Nazianzus’ · 11 February 2010

• Poem: ‘White Nights’ · 27 August 2009

• Not in My House: Flannery O’Connor · 23 July 2009

  • Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch

• Weasel, Magpie, Crow: Edward Thomas · 1 January 2009

  • Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley

• Poem: ‘The Death of Petronius’ · 18 December 2008

• He Tasks Me: Marilynne Robinson · 9 October 2008

  • Home by Marilynne Robinson

• Time of the Red-Man: James Fenimore Cooper · 25 September 2008

  • James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin

• Think Tiny: Nancification · 17 July 2008

  • The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard

• Poem: ‘Signs of the Times’ · 21 February 2008

• Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary: Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary · 29 November 2007

• Poem: ‘The Gaping Gulf’ · 6 September 2007

• Inky Pilgrimage · 24 May 2007

  • The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie edited by Donald Blount

• Two Poems · 8 February 2007

• Erasures: Donald Justice · 16 November 2006

  • Collected Poems by Donald Justice

• Poem: ‘Invisible Hand’ · 19 October 2006

• Hyacinth Boy: T.S. Eliot · 21 September 2006

  • T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet by James E. Miller
  • The Annotated ‘Waste Land’ with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose by T.S. Eliot, edited by Lawrence Rainey
  • Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ by Lawrence Rainey

• Love and Theft: plagiarism · 2 December 2004

• Poem: ‘The Passing of the Passenger Pigeon’ · 5 August 2004

• Merry Kicks: The Madness of Marinetti · 20 May 2004

  • Selected Poems and Related Prose by F.T. Marinetti, translated by Elizabeth Napier and Barbara Studholme

• Poem: ‘Six Children’ · 15 April 2004

• Red makes wrong: Harry Mathews · 20 March 2003

  • The Human Country: New and Collected Stories by Harry Mathews
  • The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays by Harry Mathews

• Flirting with Dissolution: August Kleinzahler · 5 April 2001

  • Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-90 by August Kleinzahler

• Poem: ‘Hooked’ · 7 September 2000

• Two Poems · 6 January 2000

• Two Poems · 27 May 1999

• Missing the Vital Spark: Tony Harrison · 13 May 1999

  • Prometheus by Tony Harrison

• Poem: ‘I wish’ · 4 March 1999

• Two Poems · 19 March 1998

• Poetic Licence · 21 August 1997

  • Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist by Neal Bowers

• Genius in Its Pure State · 22 May 1997

• Old Gravy · 7 September 1995

  • Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour
  • Robert Graves and the White Goddess by Richard Perceval Graves
  • Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith
  • Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry edited by Paul O’Prey
  • Robert Graves: The Centenary Selected Poems edited by Patrick Quinn

• Poem: ‘Looping the Loop’ · 6 July 1995

• His v. Hers · 9 March 1995

  • In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles edited by Jeffrey Miller

• Little Do We Know · 12 January 1995

  • The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon

• Purple Days · 12 May 1994

  • The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
  • The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, translated by Frank Palmos
  • A Good Scent from Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
  • Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation by David Wyatt

• Kooked · 10 March 1994

  • Selected Poems by Charles Olson, edited by Robert Creeley
  • Selected Poems by Robert Duncan, edited by Robert Bertholf

• Marvellous Boys · 9 September 1993

  • The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward

• Among the Bobcats · 23 May 1991

  • The Dylan Companion edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman
  • Bob Dylan: Performing Artist. Vol. I: 1960-73 by Paul Williams
  • Dylan: Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
  • The Bootleg Series: Vols I-III (rare and unreleased) 1961-1991 by Bob Dylan

• Poem: ‘Funny Peculiar’ · 25 April 1991

• Poem: ‘Affirmative Action’ · 7 March 1991

• Thank God for John Rayburn · 24 January 1991

  • Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban

• Puck’s Dream · 14 June 1990

  • Selected Poems 1990 by D.J. Enright
  • Life by Other Means: Essays on D.J. Enright edited by Jacqueline Simms
  • Vanishing Lung Syndrome by Miroslav Holub, translated by David Young and Dana Habova
  • The Dimension of the Present Moment, and Other Essays by Miroslav Holub, edited by David Young
  • Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers and George Theiner
  • My Country: Collected Poems by Alistair Elliot
  • 1953: A Version of Racine’s ‘Andromaque’ by Craig Raine
  • Andromache by Jean Racine, translated by Douglas Dunn

• Two Poems · 24 May 1990

• Turning down O’Hanlon · 7 December 1989

  • In Trouble Again: A Journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O’Hanlon
  • Our Grandmothers’ Drums: A Portrait of Rural African Life and Culture by Mark Hudson
  • Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma by Charles Nicholl

• Poem: ‘Policing Beaconsfield’ · 12 October 1989

• Pretzel · 2 February 1989

  • W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
  • Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos

• Sssnnnwhuffffll · 19 January 1989

  • The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson
  • On Ballycastle Beach by Medbh McGuckian
  • Themes on a Variation by Edwin Morgan
  • Metro by George Szirtes
  • April Galleons by John Ashbery

• Swinging it · 7 July 1988

  • S.J. Perelman: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann
  • Don’t tread on me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman edited by Prudence Crowther

• No one else can take a bath for you · 31 March 1988

  • The ego is always at the wheel by Delmore Schwartz
  • A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery and James Schuyler

• Out of the blue · 10 December 1987

  • Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
  • Partingtime Hall by James Fenton and John Fuller
  • Private Parts by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • Bright River Yonder by John Hartley Williams

• Two Poems · 3 September 1987

• I am Prince Mishkin · 23 April 1987

  • ‘Howl’: Original Draft Facsimile by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Barry Miles
  • White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985 by Allen Ginsberg

• • What’s Welsh for Zen? The Autobiography of John Cale by Victor Bockris

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