Enter, Fleeing
Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the ‘intriguing, funny, prophetic’ man of letters Mark Ford.
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Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the ‘intriguing, funny, prophetic’ man of letters Mark Ford.
‘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.’
'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.'
‘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.’
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…
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