interactive & animated web poems

Web-based poems allow a unique range of options for reader to interact with the text: there can be animations, branch points, options depending on what is selected and more.

Here are some examples that Ian has made… click on the titles or links to see them.

>> preface – edge detection. The full text is published in code::art::0 and was based on a piece written for AGITATE:21C.

>> days before dawn. The full text is published in StylusLit.

>> Interrogation
There are two different versions of this poem:
• Survey Monkey version
• WordPress version (currently inactive)
… plus you can read the full text version published here at otoliths.

>> Click here to see two animated GIF poems, The Various Contrivances by Which and Game Over (Grand Final Edition) published in otoliths.

>> Click here to see two animated GIF poems, a skeleton of desire and eclipse summer published in otoliths. The text of a skeleton of desire is published in Ian’s chapbook of the same name.

>> Click here to see Rescue, an animated GIF visual poem in otoliths.