One Day in the City

Mark Ford is the author of three collections of poetry, Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001), and Six Children (2011), and two volumes of criticism, A Driftwood Altar (2005) and Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays (2011). He has also published a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel, and a parallel text edition of Roussel’s final poem, Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique (New Impressions of Africa). He is Professor in the English Department at University College London.