Poetry Translation Centre

Mark Ford

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. He has published two collections of poetry, Landlocked (Chatto & Windus 1992; 1998) and Soft Sift (Faber & Faber 2001/Harcourt Brace 2003), and has written a critical biography of the French poet playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2000/Cornell University Press, 2001).  He has also edited Why I'm Not a Painter and other poems, a selection of the poems of Frank O'Hara, The New York Poets: an anthology (Carcanet Press, 2004) and, with Trevor Winkfield, New York Poets II: from Edwin Denby to Bernadette Mayer (Carcanet Pres, 2006).

Mark Ford is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. He currently teaches in the English Department at University College London.

Poems translated by Mark Ford

• Poem of the Nile
• Weaving a World