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Forgotten Ground Regained

Contributor: Lancelot Schaubert

Review by Dennis Wise
Website: The Showbear Family Circus Gravatar: lanceschaubert lanceschaubert on Bluesky
Lancelot Schaubert is a novelist, poet, essayist, and singer-storyteller. He has written two novels (Bell Hammers and Tap and Die), edited an anthology (Of Gods and Globes), published a variety of short stories and poems, and was the 2019 Artist in Residence for sparkandecho.org, an organization dedicated to forming communities of artists who engage with and create in response to the Bible. He has also published two poetry collections: Inconveniences Rightly Considered: Poems from My Twenties, a collection of (mostly) alliterative poems on themes ranging from love and meaning to urban life, and The Greenwood Poet, a collection of (mostly) alliterative poems inspired by Greenwood Cemetary in Brooklyn.
He has published the following alliterative poems in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, plus a review of Patrick Rothfuss' use of alliterative verse in The Wise Man's Fear:
  • Why Alliterative? (published in Issue 1, Winter, 2024)
  • Dear Tolkien Society (reprinted in Issue 2, Spring, 2024)
  • Flying in Concrete (reprinted in Issue 2, Spring, 2024)
  • Cormorant upon the Styx (published in Issue 5, Winter, 2025)
His collection Inconveniences Rightly Considered contains the following poems in alliterative verse:
  • To Jack Across the Sea
  • Locusts
  • Communes
  • Dear Ozark Freshman Boy
  • My Consolation
  • Dark Towers
  • Mist Drizzles in Brooklyn
  • Clothes
  • On the Instance of My Wife Sleeping In
  • Giving Up the News
  • The Wild West
  • The Yoke of Mothers
  • Rio Sunset
  • The Rings of Venus
  • Pigeons and Turtledoves
  • CSA Potluck
  • Prog Code
  • Baltimore Buildings
  • Vulnerare
  • Upon Finding Your Old Prison Letters
  • Home
  • Megabus Moon Roof
  • New York Funeral
  • Greenwood Cemetary Graves at Snowfall
  • Daylight and the Stand
  • Ash Wednesday
The Greenwood Poet contains the following poems in alliterative verse:
  • The Greenwood Poet
  • Greenwood's Portcullis
  • Gilded by Greenwood
  • Glaciers and their Graves
  • The River Roots First
  • The Power of Italian Agronomy
  • The Problem with Growing Things A Storm Assaults the Stained Glass of Greenwood Chapel
  • Perugia Under Different Suns
  • For a Heart of Gold
  • Hornblower Waits on Pier 11
  • Your Brother's Blood Cries Out Rash Vows
  • Happy Days Diner
  • Gothic White
  • Irish Hunger
  • Gilded Beach Trash
  • Books Bear the Rose
  • On Golden Pond
  • Brother Hudson
  • Patina
  • Little Flowers
  • Hole and Hollow
  • My Sister's Dogs Birthday Party
  • When the Green Goes
  • Five Geese Engorging Themselves
Other alliterative poetry by Lancelot Schaubert includes:
Reviews published on this site:
  • Stripped to the Bonemeal
  • How Rothfuss Writes in our Rigid Form
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