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A Guest Among Stars
A Guest Among Stars
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Paperback | Essay Collection
Mark Ford, author of 'This Dialogue of One' and award winning critic for the New York Review of Books has written essays on poetry.
The launch of this new collection will be October 22, 2024, with Dai George, in the University College London quad. Stay tuned for more details.
A Guest Among Stars collects recent essays by one of the most respected poet-critics of our time. Mark Ford discusses poets and their work, exploring context and settings behind some of the most prominent figures and works of poetry.
Mark Ford is featured on a podcast series made with Seamus Perry podcasts made with Seamus Perry about twentieth-century poets. Listen on Spotify, or on The London Review of Books Website.
Mark Ford
is the author of four poetry collections: Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992), and from Faber and Faber Soft Sift (2001), Six Children (2011), and Enter, Fleeing (2018) and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.You can find his poetry online on The Poetry Archive.
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 third monograph, Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry will be published by Oxford University Press in July.
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.