Poetry reading

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. He has published two collections of poetry, Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992, rpt. 1998), and Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001 / Harcourt Brace, 2003). He has also written a critical biography of the French poet, playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel, (Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams) which was published by Faber & Faber in 2000, and by Cornell University Press in 2001.