{"id":733,"date":"2014-07-14T20:59:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:35:35","slug":"the-last-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2014\/07\/14\/the-last-post\/","title":{"rendered":"the last post"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

it’s ten years since i started this site. I’d made websites before<\/a>, but ten years ago i started a poetry website, and then took it down and destroyed all the poems a few weeks later. Eventually I got it going again and tried a few concepts, uncompromising-poet.co.uk, accidentals.org, i-am-not-the-body.com and forkword.com before settling into what is now the wordpress powered P\u03bb\u03ccsm.<\/p>\n

In this time I’ve designed several experimental java poems, beginning with an ‘infinite poem<\/a>‘, through the unique poem compressor<\/a> to logos<\/a> (still a work in progress) – the poem to contain all other poems (a bit like Borges library of babel<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’ve also self published six books or chapbooks\/pamphlets of poems;<\/p>\n

27 Watt<\/a>
\nLondon10<\/a>
\nRhymes for a Mood<\/a>
\nAccidentals<\/a>
\nThief UCK<\/a>
\nPoison Bomb<\/a><\/p>\n

There is also a collected works “Curlicues” which is in progress.<\/p>\n

All of these books are released into the public domain in accordance with the ethos of this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve also had a few open mic readings, caught a poetry train to Sydney, hung out with an old Beat poet in London, got published on one(1) website (venereal kittens, thanks matina<\/a>!), posted occasionally in a few poetry forums, and attracted over 42 thousand comments just in the last year about shoes and bags. Real traffic has only been a steady dribble of about two to five hits a day, some of which are me, and i have had just one comment which i could be sure was not spam.<\/p>\n

Such is the lot of the unknown internet poet. I feel a solidarity with all those other internet authors plugging away out there. Shoutout to P<\/em>antal<\/em>oons<\/a>. I’m not sure what is next, i have felt a subtle change in me ever since writing brain crack<\/a>. I am going to buy a guitar and write songs and study fossil fish for the next few years. Let me know if you’d like me to come back.<\/p>\n

Alaric Jones aka Alex watt, Poetaster<\/p>\n

Update: the lovely Joy Leftow<\/a> has been in touch with promises of publication, so perhaps my laments above are a little improvident..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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