Mark Ford was born in 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya. He has published three collections of poetry: Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001) and Six Children (2011). His numerous publications include biography, translation, anthologies and essay collections, including This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (2014), awarded the Poetry Foundation's 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.
