Peter J. Ross

Peter J. Ross, poet and Usenet personality. Photo owned by Peter J. Ross. Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA-3.0), courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Peter J. Ross (born June 27, 1964) is an English poet and Usenet personality.

Life

"I was born in 1964, and was educated at Dollar Academy, the International Cello Centre and New College, Oxford; I now live in Somerset. I have been writing poetry and occasionally composing music since the age of twenty. My favourite English poets currently include John Berryman, T S Eliot, William Empson, Roy Fuller, Geoffrey Hill, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Philip Larkin, John Milton, William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser, some of whom are also probably among my influences. In music, I believe, nobody is quite as good as Johann Sebastian Bach." -Peter J. Ross

• Date of birth: 1964-06-27
• Location: United Kingdom
• Nationality: Scottish by descent; English by accident of birth
• Education: Dollar Academy; International Cello Centre; New College, Oxford (did not complete degree)
• Interests: various, including
  • Writing - verse, criticism, humour (somewhat amateurish)
  • Composing music - mostly short pieces in "classical" style (somewhat more amateurish)
  • Computing - Linux user (neither newbie nor guru; I break stuff but can often fix it)
  • Languages - especially dead ones
  • Usenet - rec.arts.poems, alt.config, alt.usenet.kooks and a few computer-related groups
• Wikipedia presence: minimal; I fix typos
• J: stands for John (jokes about peters and johns are unlikely to be new to me)
• Please don't call me: Pete (but "PJR" is OK)

Internet career

In February, 2004, Ross announced on RAP and AAPC that the groups no longer interested him, and that he was not likely to make further on-topic posts, but would instead spend his time 'persecuting' others on the group:

I'm tired of pretending to be a "regular" in newsgroups where 90% of the on-topic posts consist of hilarious doggerel and inept comments. RAP and AAPC are no longer of interest to me except as sources of potential net.kooks. I'm not going to leave, but my sole interest from now on will be in persecuting morons such as c[...], p[...], S[...], T[...], and the dozens of others who are on their low intellectual level.

It's unlikely that I'll ever make an on-topic post in RAP or AAPC again. Doing so would be a waste of my time.

See also

• Category:AAPC poets
• List of British poets

External links

Poems

• "I Know"
• "Her Teardrops"
• "Trak Rak"
• "Wine and Schnapps" (as "Rhonda Jane Porlock")
• Sixteen poems, 2000-2003
• Poetry of PJR

Prose

• "Tips for Cat Owners"

About

• Hymn to Pete's Virgin