Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His anthology London: A History in Verse was published last July. (June 2013)
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Is Humbert Humbert Jewish?
June 6, 2013
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
by Andrea Pitzer
The Tragedy of Mister Morn
by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from the Russian by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy
Selected Poems
by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, and edited and with an introduction by Thomas Karshan
Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays
by Brian Boyd
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Shameless and All-Forgiving Joe
January 10, 2013
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
edited by Ron Padgett, with an introduction by Paul Auster
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‘And the Silken Girls Bringing Sherbet’
October 25, 2012
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898–1922
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
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The King of Charisma
May 10, 2012
Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
by Alastair Brotchie
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Bolaño: On the Edge of the Precipice
October 13, 2011
Antwerp
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
The Return
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
The Insufferable Gaucho
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998–2003
by Roberto Bolaño, edited by Ignacio Echevarría, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Tres
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Laura Healy
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Auden Against Conceit
June 23, 2011
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV: 1956–1962
edited by Edward Mendelson
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Ted Hughes’s ‘Last Letter’
November 25, 2010
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Hide and Be Found
August 19, 2010
Rain
by Don Paterson
Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon
by Dan Chiasson
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‘Innermost Secrets’
May 27, 2010
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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Rinse and Repeat
February 25, 2010
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Resurrecting John Donne
December 17, 2009
John Donne, Body and Soul
by Ramie Targoff
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‘The Poet & the Wreck’: An Exchange
April 30, 2009
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The Poet and the Wreck
January 15, 2009
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life
by Paul Mariani
Exiles
by Ron Hansen.
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The Myths of Ted Hughes
November 6, 2008
Letters of Ted Hughes
selected and edited byChristopher Reid
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How Yeats Did It
April 3, 2008
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
by Helen Vendler
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A Master of Noir
January 17, 2008
Voyage Along the Horizon
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
The Man of Feeling
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
All Souls
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
A Heart So White
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Dark Back of Time
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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The Dreams of Allen Ginsberg
September 27, 2007
Collected Poems, 1947–1997
by Allen Ginsberg
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
by Bill Morgan
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952
by Allen Ginsberg,edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression
edited by Bill Morgan andNancy J. Peters
The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later
edited by Jason Shinder
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile
edited by Barry Miles
The Yage Letters Redux
by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero
by David Sandison and Graham Vickers
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The Call of the Stallion
December 21, 2006
Horse Latitudes
by Paul Muldoon
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures
by Paul Muldoon
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Our Man in the Underworld
October 5, 2006
My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
by Harry Mathews
Oulipo Compendium
edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
November 17, 2005
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951–1991
edited by William Corbett
Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
edited by Ted Leigh, with an introduction by David Lehman and additional notes by Justin Spring
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A Holiday in Reality
June 9, 2005
Where Shall I Wander
by John Ashbery
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Surprise! Surprise!
December 2, 2004
Return to the City of White Donkeys
by James Tate
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Auden Remakes ‘The Tempest’!
June 10, 2004
The Sea and the Mirror:A Commentary on Shakespeare’s The Tempest
by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch
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Playing with Today
November 20, 2003
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems
by Charles Simic
The Metaphysician in the Dark
by Charles Simic
Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse
Between the Lines, 120 pp., $17.95 (paper)
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At Arm’s Length
September 25, 2003
Poems, 1968–1998
by Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel
by Paul Muldoon
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Reproduction
July 17, 2003
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Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter'
October 28, 2010
“What happened that night?
Your final night.”
So begins “Last Letter,” a poem, or rather draft of a poem, by Ted Hughes published in the October 11 issue of the British magazine the New Statesman.
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'The Robinson Institute,' Patrick Keiller
March 27, 2012 – October 14, 2012
A must for fans of Keiller’s brilliant condition-of-England films which all chart the eccentric journeys made by his wandering outlaw-scholar, Robinson.
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Titian at the National Gallery
April 4, 2012 – August 19, 2012
There are two small exhibitions of works by Titian at the National Gallery, and both will take your breath away.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden
Ongoing
This has just reopened and is one of the nicest spots in the whole of London.
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Helen Simpson Reads at the Hay Festival
June 4, 2012, 10 am
Collections of short stories have been a tough sell in recent decades, so to make a career out of them you have to be very, very good—which Helen Simpson is.