In his new anthology, London: A History in Verse, Mark Ford, poet and Professor of English at UCL, tells the history of London through the poetry it has inspired – from Chaucer to Eliot, Donne to Daljit Nagra, Blake to Iain Sinclair. As he writes in his preface, ‘the poetry of London reflects all strata of the culture of London, and an anthology such as this might be said to replicate the way so many different types of Londoner find themselves crammed into the same tube carriage, so to speak – that is, forced to share the contested spaces and resources of the city.’

Harvard | Hardback 940 pp. |ISBN: 9780674065680