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Back Issues (ISSN 2996-6353)

Issue 5 (Winter, 2025):
Images of the Natural World
Issue 4 (Fall, 2024): Poems of Love and Loss
Issue 3 (Summer, 2024): Withowinde Retrospective
Issue 2 (Spring, 2024): The Natural Poetry of English
Issue 1 (Winter, 2024): Alliterative, Again
A Christmas Collection (December, 2023)
Inaugural Issue (November, 2023)

Tables of Contents, by Issue

Issue 5 (Winter, 2025)
Images of the Natural World
Introduction
Poems
  • Judd Bemmels, Tales of the Woods (English Oak, Beech, Silver Fir, Norway Spruce)
  • Matthew Dickerson, Kenning the Cobble, Cardinal at the Feeder in Winter, The Last Leaf that Clings
  • Danny Fitzpatrick, Fox
  • Lancelot Schaubert, Cormorant upon the Styx
  • Fiona Richardson, Sparrow, White-Tailed Eagle, Red Kite
  • Maryann Corbett, The Birds of Ancient Battlefields visit the Suburbs
  • Pam Clements, White Owl Irruption
  • Chase Ryan Moniz, Winter Window
  • Margaret Noodin, What the Peepers Say
  • Matthew Bullen, Serenity Falls Up
  • K.F. Hartless, Alliterative Haiku
  • Michael Helsem, Under the Eye
  • Steven Searcy, Emblem
  • Colin Mackenzie, The Brough o Birsay, Tynin a Wellie
  • Rachel Trousdale, The Woodchuck
  • Jeff Sypeck, Interloper
  • Rose Novick, Monostich Sequence I
  • Siodhna McGowan, Iris
Articles and Reviews
  • Michael Smith, The modern landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • J. Simon Harris, The Cycle of the Seasons in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Dennis W. Wise, review of The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Michael Helsem, review of Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage
  • Jamie Molaro, review of Ulfhildr
Publications Noted
Call for Submissions
Issue 4 (Fall, 2024)
Poems of Love and Loss
Introduction
Poems
  • Maryann Corbett, The Translator Working Late
  • Michael Helsem, Iftar
  • Alex Rettie, The Future
  • Kathryn Ann Hill, Elizabeth and Darcy
  • Thaliarchus, Farewell
  • Paul D. Deane, Excerpt from The Redemption of Daeron
  • Jeff Sypeck, Entreating a Sick Kitten
  • Ian Holt, Mild Soul of Mine [After Camoes]
  • Cassidy McFadzean, Leave Her and She Swells
  • Simon Corble, Excerpt from Dramatic Adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The Girdle Scene, with Introduction)
  • Martin Kennedy Yates: Tha Spawnen a Scousenlish, Scousenlish a-singen, Scousenlish a fallen lufen, and Scousenlish an Scaren Yaweth
  • J.D Harlock, To Consecrate Our Calamities, to Commemorate This Carnage
  • Rahul Gupta, Spawn of the Lightning: An Army of Hallowe’en Toadstools
Articles
  • Martin Kennedy Yates, What Causes Sir Gawain to Go at a Gallop
  • Paul D. Deane, Varieties of Alliterative Meter
Publications Noted Call for Submissions
Issue 3 (Summer 2024)
Poems from Fifty Years of Withowinde Magazine
Introduction
Call for Submissions
Cædmon Prize Winners
  • Charles R. Sleeth, After the Flood (1984)
  • Brian Mitchell, Grondeswigyle (1986)
  • Pat Masson, Dragon-Fighter (1988)
  • Chris McCully, Cape Wrath (1992)
  • Ian Greenwood, The Whitby Elegy (1994)
  • Steve Close, Ingelrii’s Maþþumsweord (2012)
  • Martin Vine, The Commuter (2015) and The Wood (2019)
  • John Whitbourn, From Place to Place (2021)
  • David Jones, Cuthbert’s Way (2024)
Highlighted Poems from Withowinde
  • Phyllis Wicks, Warriors
  • Brian Bishop, Catullus Poem No. 3
  • Damon Lord, The Severn
  • Steve Pollington, Farewell
  • L.A. Hood, Leaf
  • Brian Wright, Cain’s Kin
  • P.D. Brown, October 14th
  • Tony Mitchell, Toys
Other Withowinde Poets
Publications Noted
Issue 2 (Spring, 2024)
The Natural Poetry of English
Introduction
Poems
  • Bruce Byfield: Riddle 1; Riddle 2
  • Ted Charnley,: I Find the Naiad’s Place and Mine
  • Frank Coffman, Battle of the Bards
  • Pat Masson: A Lay of St. Boniface; Hymn to Ëarendil; The Last Valkyrie
  • Lancelot Schaubert: Dear Tolkien Society
  • Donald Mace Williams: Riddles
  • Donald T. Williams: Alliterative Meter; The Origin of Language
Articles
  • O.D. Macrae Gibson: The Natural Poetry of English
  • 1. Principles
  • 2. Rhythms and their Uses
  • 3. Rhythms and Structures
  • 4. Putting it All Together
  • 5. Filling in and Rounding Off (i)
  • 6. Filling in and Rounding Off (ii)
  • Lancelot Schaubert, How Rothfuss Writes in our Rigid Form
Publications Noted
Issue 1 (Winter, 2024)
Alliterative, Again
Introduction
Poems
  • Lancelot Schaubert: Why Alliterative? and Flying in Concrete
  • Ted Charnley: Downstairs, Upstairs; As He Is To Us; What Builds a Bridge
  • Paul D. Deane: Breakwater and Housebreaker
  • David Jalajel: The Lizard
  • Rebecca Henry Lowndes: Three Miles, August
  • Aaron Poochigian: excerpts from Mr. Either/Or and Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage
  • Thaliarchus: Christmas Walk
  • Steve Withrow: The Mages of Mars
Articles
  • Aaron Poochigian, Stripping the Dead: Auden's Appropriation of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Publications Noted
Relaunch
  • Reprints (December, 2023)
  • Inaugural Issue (November, 2023)
A Christmas Collection (December 25, 2023)
William G. Carpenter
  • The Dream of the Rood (translation)
Kathryn Hill
  • Hannah Sings (1 Samuel 1:1—2:11)
  • Hear the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 30:8-17)
  • Behold, Your God Will Come (Isaiah 35:3-7)
  • Awake, Awake, and Work Your Wonders (Isaiah 51:9-16)
  • O Wonder-Worker (Psalm 77)
  • How Manifold Are Thy Works (Psalm 104)
  • Had It Not Been the Lord (Psalm 124)
  • The Song of Daniel, Chapter 1
  • Call His Name John (Luke 1:5-25)
  • The Song of St. Patrick
  • Forgiveness is Arisen from the Garden's Grave (Chrysostom's Paschal Homily)
Reprints (December, 2023)
Corrie Bergeron
  • Oathbinder
Lisa Cooper
  • January 18th
Kevin Corbett
  • To Varius
  • Archytas
  • Dedication for a Shrine of Apollo (Horace, Odes, 1.31)
Maryann Corbett
  • The Birds of Ancient Battlefields Visit the Suburbs
Anthony Etherin
  • Marionette
  • The Werewolf
  • Blood for the Mummy
  • Woodland Witch
Inaugural Issue
Adam Bolivar
  • A Riddle
  • The Cuckoo
  • The Battlefield
Robert Cuthbert
  • Dietrichsvisur
  • Mikkelsvisur
  • Quest for Valhalla
Paul D. Deane
  • All the Air is Shattered
  • Aislin's Ride: A Fragment
  • The Redemption of Daeron
Rahul Gupta
  • Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
  • Volund's Revenge
  • The Illuminated Manuscript
Michael Helsem
  • Cthulhu Eldritch Horror Final Form
Math Jones
  • Aurgelmir
  • Catching Loopy
  • Hoder's Song
  • Mother's Song
David B. Ring
  • By the Fire
  • Iceland Spar
  • Not Moving
  • On the Stair at Yosemite Falls
  • Oversold
  • Toad's Porch
Earlier Publications
Content was added piecemeal from 1999 to 2023 without being separated into issues. All of this content can be accessed using links on the archive, index, resources, and reviews pages
The issues on this page are only a small sample of the alliterative verse available on this site. There are several other ways to get an overview of the best in modern English alliterative verse. You can find poetry published on this site on the archive page, listed by author and title, or on the index page, listed by title, author, and type of poem). Or you can try one of several samplers, including the "styles and themes" page, the "noted authors" page, or pages that list alliterative poems about Scenes, Settings, and Objects, Modern Life, Epic Poems, Fantasy and Horror, The Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Celtic Worlds, The High Medieval World, Arthurian Legend, The Classical, Alliterative, The Biblical, Alliterative, The Audio-Video Tour of Alliterative Verse, and The Riddle Tour. Or you can check out one of the community pages, including one for scholars, one for poets and writers, one for science fiction and fantasy writers and fans, one for members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, one for authors published in Withowinde, the journal of "Tha Engliscas Gesithas" (The Engish Complanions), one for Christian writers, and another for Pagans.
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