John Ashbery

Mark Ford's poetry has been praised by Helen Vendler and John Bayley, among others, and by leading poets in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Ford is a Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. John Ashbery's books of poetry have won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.