Enter, Fleeing

Review 'This is a very sophisticated and witty collection, offering small pleasures of recognition on almost every page . . . his finest book to date . . . It's a gem.' ― Literary Review 'Mark Ford has always been a poet of the utmost wit and, now, with his fourth individual collection, Enter, Fleeing, he's more than ever a poet of memory, enriching personal histories with artfully constructed fictions ... it confirms Ford's standing as one of the defining voices of his generation, and makes this book a major occasion.' -- Anthony Caleshu ― Poetry London 'Enter, Fleeing is a masterpiece of mercurial thought, playful and witty, nervy and eclectic. To enter this collection is to experience the fleeing world from within and without.' -- Daljit Nagra Product Description Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford. Book Description Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford. About the Author Mark Ford was born in 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya. He grew up in a number of countries, including Nigeria, America, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Bahrain. He has written four collections of poetry: Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001), Six Children (2011), and Enter, Fleeing (2018). He is also the author of Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (2000), the first English-language biography of the French poet, playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel (1877-1933). His translation of Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique for a parallel text edition published in 2011 was a runner-up for that year's PEN Translation Awards. Mark Ford's other publications include the anthology London: A History in Verse (2012), Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (2016), and three collections of essays: A Driftwood Altar (2005), Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays (2011), and This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (2014), which was 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.