Thomas H. Ford

Thomas H. Ford is a historian of literature in society. He writes about poetry of diverse kinds: good poems and bad poems, new poems and old poems, poems you've likely never heard of and poems you almost certainly have. He also writes about Romanticism, critical and aesthetic theories, the environmental humanities and Australia, amongst other topics.

His most recent book is Barron Field in New South Wales (Melbourne UP, 2023), which he co-authored with Justin Clemens. His other books include How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps (Routledge, 2021) and Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air (Cambridge UP, 2018).

He is currently working on two sole-authored book projects, one provisionally titled Colonial Poetry and the other Poems in the Avantgarden. He is also involved in two co-written books in progress, the first on drought and Australian culture and the second on the history of expertise and peer review.