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Selected Poems charts Mark Ford's growing complexity as a writer and his mastery and use of form. John Ashbery calls Ford's work "refreshing" and it's that exuberance and goodwill that animates the poems, giving them their spontaneity and leavening the grim with comic elan and joy. Myth, history, and the everyday are all at play in this wonderfully diverse collection.Invisible Assets: After he threw he through aplate glass window, nature seemed that much closer.Even the dastardly division in societymight be healed by a first-rate glazier.Of course, on Sundays families still picnickedboldly on the village green, and afterwardsmarveled at the blacksmith's glowing forge--how strong they all were in those days!And yet how small! Even a man only six foot tallwas then esteemed a veritable giant.Surely the current furor over architecturewould have evoked from them only pitying smiles.Meanwhile the market for landscapes has neverbeen firmer. This view, for instance, includesseven counties, and a bull charging around in its paddock.Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962. He has published three collections of poetry and a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel and is the editor of Frank O'Hara's Selected Poems. He has also translated Roussel's New Impressions of Africa and is the editor of London: A History in Verse. He lives in London, England.

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and romantic coast of Cornwall where they met, and then follows Thomas's poetic recreation of the slow degeneration of their marriage and their embittered final decade. Ford shows how Emma's writings and experiences during this time were fundamental to Thomas's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Although for over a decade the marriage between Thomas and Emma had been troubled, and indeed Emma spent much time during her final years secluded in her attic rooms above his study, her death stimulated him to write some of the greatest elegies in English. Twenty-one of these, including masterpieces such as 'The Voice' (which opens 'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me') and 'After a Journey' were collected in 'Poems of 1912-13'. While these have received much attention and are often read by school pupils and university students alike, his numerous other poems about Emma have only rarely been discussed. Ford corrects this oversight, providing accessible and insightful readings from a poet's perspective.

Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.

Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back and forth between Dorset and the capital, Mark Ford shows that the Dorset-London axis is critical to an understanding of his identity as a man and his achievement as a writer.Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner presents a detailed account of Hardy’s London experiences, from his arrival as a shy, impressionable youth, to his embrace of radical views, to his lionization by upper-class hostesses eager to fête the creator of Tess. Drawing on Hardy’s poems, letters, fiction, and autobiography, it offers a subtle, moving exploration of the author’s complex relationship with the metropolis and those he met or observed there: publishers, fellow authors, street-walkers, benighted lovers, and the aristocratic women who adored his writing but spurned his romantic advances.The young Hardy’s oscillations between the routines and concerns of Dorset’s Higher Bockhampton and the excitements and dangers of London were crucial to his profound sense of being torn between mutually dependent but often mutually uncomprehending worlds. This fundamental self-division, Ford argues, can be traced not only in the poetry and fiction explicitly set in London but in novels as regionally circumscribed as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

In the war-torn landscapes of Colombia, survival isn't just a choice-it's a fight. Volume 7 of the Livestock Agents of Colombia series, The Final Push, brings readers into the heart of a high-stakes mission as Ben White and his elite team of Livestock Agents battle against time, hostile terrain, and ruthless guerrilla factions to protect over 80,000 cattle and the farmers who depend on them. As the ELN and FARC wage a bloody war for control of key drug routes, thousands of innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire. With entire villages burned and families forced to flee, the Livestock Agents are called to lead a dangerous cattle drive south through Casanare, facing ambushes, sniper attacks, and relentless pursuit by Rico, an ELN commander determined to stop them at all costs. For Maria Sandoval, this mission is deeply personal. Haunted by the ghosts of her past, she must confront her most painful memories and take on Rico in a final, brutal showdown that will determine not only her fate but the future of the entire caravan. As the team makes their final push to Yopal, they are greeted by the orphans they rescued, a touching reminder of the lives they have saved. But with one last desperate attack looming, the Livestock Agents must stand together one final time to protect the innocent and ensure the farmers reach safety. With Ben White contemplating retirement, the future of the team hangs in the balance. Is it time for a new generation to take over? Inspired by true events in Colombia, January 2025, The Final Push is a gripping novel of courage, sacrifice, and justice. Filled with explosive action, emotional depth, and unforgettable characters, this is a story of survival against all odds.

The Safe Haven By Mark Ford In a world ravaged by a devastating bird flu epidemic that has decimated cattle industries across continents, Colombia stands as the last sanctuary of healthy livestock. Its natural barriers and strict livestock protocols have made it a beacon of hope-but also a target. When mysterious attacks threaten the fragile stability of Colombia's cattle industry, Maria Alvarez and her team of Livestock Agents are thrust into a dangerous mission. From covert drone operations to extremist sabotage, they must uncover a conspiracy that links environmental activists, rogue DEA factions, and multinational corporations in a bid to destabilize Colombia's agricultural lifeline. With the clock ticking, the team races to expose the truth and protect the last bastion of global food security. Facing moral dilemmas, unrelenting enemies, and the ever-present danger of betrayal, they must risk everything to safeguard the livelihoods of ranchers and the integrity of a nation. Gritty, gripping, and inspired by real-world challenges, The Safe Haven is a thrilling tale of courage, resilience, and justice in a time of global crisis. Will the agents succeed in saving Colombia's cattle industry-or will they lose the last safe haven the world has left? Prepare for an unforgettable journey through the heart of Casanare, where every choice could mean the difference between survival and collapse.

In the heart of Colombia's untamed savannahs, where shadows hide secrets and the land whispers of danger, a battle rages not just for survival, but for the soul of a nation. Maria Sandoval and her team of Livestock Agents are no strangers to peril. Tasked with protecting ranchers from the relentless grip of the ELN's smuggling empire, their mission is clear: disrupt, defend, and dismantle. But this time, the stakes are higher. A mysterious figure known only as the "man in white" emerges, orchestrating a network of arms, cattle, and corruption that threatens to engulf the region. As alliances are tested and betrayals uncovered, Maria must navigate treacherous terrain-both physical and political-to expose the mastermind behind the chaos. Will the Livestock Agents' resilience and determination be enough to turn the tide? Or will they be swallowed by the very darkness they seek to fight? Mark Ford's gripping sequel delivers relentless action, compelling characters, and a stark look at the cost of justice. Livestock Agents of Colombia Vol. 2 is a pulse-pounding exploration of courage in the face of impossible odds.

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This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era’s most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Like Randall Jarrell, whose achievement is assessed here, Ford combines a refreshing openness to innovation with an authoritative awareness of what makes a poem stand the test of time. Witty, astute and wide-ranging, Ford demonstrates his formidable gifts as a close reader of poetry, whether exploring canonical works by the likes of Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot, or championing the cause of neglected figures such as James Thomson, Samuel Greenberg and Joan Murray. As John Lanchester once observed of Ford’s essays, ‘If more literary criticism were like this, more people would read it.’

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era’s most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Like Randall Jarrell, whose achievement is assessed here, Ford combines a refreshing openness to innovation with an authoritative awareness of what makes a poem stand the test of time. Witty, astute and wide-ranging, Ford demonstrates his formidable gifts as a close reader of poetry, whether exploring canonical works by the likes of Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot, or championing the cause of neglected figures such as James Thomson, Samuel Greenberg and Joan Murray. As John Lanchester once observed of Ford’s essays, ‘If more literary criticism were like this, more people would read it.’

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. The figures considered here range from Guillaume Apollinaire to Ezra Pound, from Derek Walcott to Joni Mitchell. The book's title is drawn from a poem by Douglas Crase, whose oeuvre is assessed in its final essay. An appendix present an enchanting selection of letters received by Ford from John Ashbery, whose work Ford has edited for the Library of America. These letters date from 1986, when Ford was at work on a PhD thesis on Ashbery, to the final missive Ford received in late 2017.

This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, James Schuyler, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon among others. Arranged chronologically, the essays present a wide-ranging and sophisticated narrative that takes the reader from the first stirrings of modernism through to the dynamic experiments of the present day. A number of essays attend to particular artistic alignments. One explores the relationship between Wallace Stevens and the unjustly neglected English poet Nicholas Moore, another the close friendship between James Schuyler and the painter Fairfield Porter, while a third contends that the lyrics, music and career of Bob Dylan unwittingly illustrate many of the key tenets of the great nineteenth-century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.