Last Post Journal

LAST POST was originally published twice yearly and supplied free to members of the Ford Madox Ford Society. It will continue as an occasional publication, supplied to members and available in PDF form on this website, alongside the Society Blog.

Last Post was conceived as a replacement to the annual series entitled International Ford Madox Ford Studies, which reached a natural end with its fifteenth volume. The Ford Society wanted to continue and extend that project, to open out the conversation and attract new readers and new contributors. Last Post was envisaged as a meeting-place in print, not just for Ford specialists but for those interested in other modernist writers as well as in the cultural, social and political contexts of Ford’s life and work. With more informal pieces beside the scholarly essays and creative non-fiction, whether concerned with expatriate lives in Paris, women’s rights, Sussex smallholding or Edwardian politics, Last Post: A Literary Journal is intended to provide just that kind of Fordian meeting-place for conversation, comment and criticism.

We are always interested in hearing from prospective contributors, whether offering complete drafts, proposals or suggestions. We are also keen to secure more personal responses to Ford’s writings, not excluding creative writing inspired by Ford, as well as short news items such as overlooked Fordian references, mentions of Ford in the media and future conferences. Likely reviewers of new books relevant to Last Post’s areas of interest – broadly, Ford and his contemporaries, particularly comparative and contextual studies – are welcome too.

Please contact Paul Skinner: (p.skinner370@btinternet.com) 

Open Access issues of Last Post

As a part of our mission on behalf of global Ford studies, all issues of Last Post have been made digitally available several months after print publication. Click on the image to download the pdf.

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