Forgotten Ground Regained
ISSN 2996-6353
New Series Issue 1, Winter, 2024
INTRODUCTION
THE IMAGE TO THE RIGHT anchored the home page on the original version of the Forgotten Ground Regained website, back in 1999. Now that I have relaunched the site, it seems appropriate to go one step further, and produce new issues in something closer to a magazine format, in the form of a pdf file that people can read more easily on a tablet or (let’s go old school here!) print out and read at their leisure.
Forgotten Ground Regained (the website) is a resource for anyone interested in modern English alliterative verse. While my focus is on poetry that revives Germanic alliterative verse, in the tradition of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I am open to publishing practically any form of poetry that uses alliteration systematically, as an organizing principle.
In the first issue in this new format, I highlight poets whose work highlights the creative potential of alliterative poetry when it is applied to contemporary topics and themes. Let’s start (to our right) with a poem that celebrates alliterative poetry as sculptor’s work, rather than the watercolor of free verse or the handcrafted iconography of traditional accentual-syllabic forms.
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