Mark Ford (born 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet.

As a result, he had a peripatetic childhood, moving 'to a new country roughly every 18 months', accompanied by a 'sense of rootlessness or of not belonging'.

[1][2] After school in London, he attended Oxford University, graduating in 1983 with a First in English Literature.

He then studied at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, before returning to Oxford to study for his doctorate, writing his thesis on the poetry of John Ashbery, supervised by John Bayley.

Following this appointment, he worked as a freelance writer, principally reviewing poetry for The Guardian.