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These collections illustrate the range of modes and themes to which alliterative verse can be applied -- epic and lyrical, secular and religious.
This book literally contains more original English alliterative verse by more poets between two covers than anything since before Gutenberg invented the printing press.
A collection of (mostly) alliterative poems on themes ranging from love and meaning to urban life. 25 of the poems in this book are in alliterative verse.
A collection of mostly alliterative poems by Lancelot Schaubert inspired by Greenwood Cemetary in Brooklyn. 26 of the poems in this book are in alliterative verse.
A collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's alliterative and metrical poems about events in the First Age of Middle Earth. Includes, most notably, his "Lay of the Children of Hurin"
A tale of the Scottish coast, set in original alliterative verse by Ian Crockatt. The poems emulate Norse skaldic forms (drottkvaett).
Contains the four "Scousenlish" poems inspired by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Contains the long alliterative narrative poem, "The Nameless Isle"
Each of the 62 short poems in this collection features a dif-ferent tree species and pre-sents a brief sketch in pithy, imaginative alliterative verse.
Contains three alliterative poems: "Three Visitors", "Kennings", and "After Scattering David Berman's Ashes".
A collection of alliterative verse in the Old English style
A collection of alliterative verse in the Old English style
Contains "A Fate for Fire", a long poem in alliterative verse about past wildfires in Alberta
A collection that includes several alliterative poems
Contains the long alliterative poem, "Aecerbot"
Contains one long alliterative poem: "Big Billy".
A collection of poems set in Cumbria in the north of England. It includes the alliterative poems "The House that Jack Built" and "jackself's Boast".
Contains a version of the Old English poem, "The Ruin"
Contains versions of ten riddles from the Old English Exeter Book
Contains one long alliterative poem sequence "Saga"
A sequence of poems in alliterative verse"
A sequence of poems about genocide in an invented alliterative form
Contains the alliterative poems "A Triinity Riddle" and "The Birch Canoe"
Contains the alliterative poems "The Swan's Son" and "What the Eagle's Fan Says".
Contains an alliterative version of the Biblical story of Joseph.
Contains an alliterative treatment of the Biblical book of Daniel.
A collection of Christian religious poems, the majority of them alliterative.
A collection of metrical and alliterative poems, including a cycle or vigil for religious mediation.
A collection of Christian devotions, many of them in alliterative verse.
Contains multiple alliterative poems including "A Marriage Poem for Nora and Jamie", "Boon", "White" and "Crow's Nests in Court Metres"
Contains the alliterative poem "Rosemary"
Contains the alliterative poem "Wendell"
Contains one poem in alliterative verse: "The Birds of Ancient Battlefields Visit the Suburb"
Contains one poem in alliterative verse: "Cold Case".
Contains one poem in alliterative verse: "Spoonspell".
Contains two alliterative poems: "Riddle 40" and "Riddle 52".
Contains one poem in alliterative verse, "Overture".
Contains the alliterative poem "Poem for the Millenium".
Contains two alliterative verse poems, "Another Reluctance" and "The Grim Garden".
A book of highly alliterative free verse by a young Irish poet
Contains three alliterative free verse poems: "Compass", "Alarum" and "The Hill We Climb".
Contains several alliterative poems', including "Psalm 1","Commentary, 1 Tim. 3:16", and "Vision".
Contains a retelling of Sir Gawain & The Green Knight, from the Green Knight's viewpoint.
Contains the alliterative poem "Family First"
Contains one long alliterative verse poem, "Star-Seeing Night".
Contains one long alliterative poem "Alphabet"
A collection that includes several alliterative poems, includingI’m a paragr "The Werewolf"
A collection of often highly alliterative free verse
Life's Lines Mitchell
Contains two alliterative poems, "Toys" and "Strange Season"
A collection that contains the long alliterative poem, "The Infant and the Pearl"
Contains two alliterative poems, "Nine of Swords" and "Four of Wands ".
Contains three alliterative poems, "Riddle", "Grendel's Mother", and "DCCXCIII: A Fragment"
Contains one alliterative poem, "Grettir's Battle with Glam". It experiments with a broad variety of poetic forms.
A collection that contains two alliterative poems: "As He Is to Us" and "Other Structures"
A poetry collection that contains one alliterative verse poem: "Gangaridae"
A poetry collection including poems like "Bloodline" and "Chillicothe Apostrophe": Old English rhythms wihtout structural alliteraiton:
A collection of poems and stories by Eli Thorpe that includes the alliterative poems "Duel", "Sailing", "The Muse", "Dancing into Darkness", "The Tree", and "Sea Song".
Contains the alliterative free verse poems "Bestiary for a Cemetary" and "Cursing for Beginners"
This collection contains the alliterative verse mystery play, "The Coronation of the Virgin"
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A modern-day riff on the concept of the Canterbury Tales, but with an alliterative poem (Leo Kapitansky's First Tale) that gets shouted down by the others.
Contains the alliterative poems "Migraines" and "The Battle of Brintellix"
Contains "Brute Ode" and other experimental free verse poems formatted in half-lines, inspired by Middle English alliterative verse.
Contains the alliterative poems "Mearcstapa", "Theodicy" and "Riddle"
An alliterative poem sequence to match a medieval clendar
This collection contains the alliterative verse poem "Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano Englsh"
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Contains the alliterative poem "Empty"
Contains the alliterative poem "Tree and Leaf"
Contains the alliterative poems "The Healing Hills" and "The Hereford Statue"
Contains "The Anxiety of the Age", an Audenesque riff on Mary Had a Little Lamb
Contains the alliterative free verse poems “Exhausted, Mankey Sleeps, Dreams He’s His Dead Dog, Mitch” and “Bearly”
Contains the alliterative poem Alfterimage
Contains the long alliterative poem "Caedmon", inspired by the Old English tale
Contains the alliterative poems "Thunderstorm: St. Olaf College", "Riddle", "Prairie Coreopsis", and "Where the Water Falls".
Contains the alliterative poem, "Storm Borne"
Cotains several alliterative translations from Old Norse/Icelandic skaldic verse:: “Auðr Mourns her Dead Brother”, “Loss of Sons”, “Rune Carving”, “Dying Well”, “Áslaug’s Three Sorrows”, “Old Age”, and “Verse Making”
Cotains several alliterative poems by Andrew Gordon Bailey, John Glenday, Oz Hardwick, David McKelvey, Beverly Nadin, Andrew Smardon, and Ryan Whatley
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Contains the alliterative poem, "Caregiver"
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