Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Matthew Dickerson
Website: www.matthewdickerson.net
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Matthew Dickerson is a professor at Middlebury College and the author of several books. He studied Old English Literature at Cornell University while earning a PhD in Computer Science. His published fiction includes the medieval historical novel The Rood and the Torc (2014) and the fantasy novel The Gifted (2015). His narrative nature writing includes The Voices of Rivers (2019), The Salvelinus, the Sockeye, and the Egg-Sucking Leech (2024), and Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea (2025). He has also published numerous books and chapters exploring the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
He published the following poems in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 5, Winter, 2025:
The following poem was published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 6, Spring, 2025. It was originally published in his novel The Rood and the Torc:
Two of his poems appear in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern English alliterative verse:
- "Morning Berries by the McKenzie"
- "Ulestan's Hope" (first published in The Rood and the Torc, Wings Press, 2014)
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