Once a good poem, like Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight would hold the audience spellbound. The rhythm of the verse, the magic of interwoven, alliterating words, the epic tales of heroes and great deeds, these made an evening of poetry with the bard as alluring to medieval audiences as Star Wars is to modern moviegoers.

This site is for those who think poetry can be more than confessional free verse or recycled Victorian sentiment - whether poets, educated readers, or the casual poetic websurfer. It is both a webzine and a poetry resource: It contains original poems, essays, translations, links to alliterative poems on the web and original medieval epics and verse romances, and much more.

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