Forgotten Ground Regained
ISSN 2996-6353
Publications Noted
Articles, Reviews, Discussions on Blogs, and Other Web Resources
- Jacob Allee, Why Should Christians Read Beowulf?
- Adam Bolivar, interview about Told by Firelight in Timbered Halls, in Eternal Haunted Summer
- Juan Barquin, Green Knight Review: David Lowery’s Adaptation Fails to Capture the Greatness of its Source Material
- Robert Charbonneau, On the Poet as Maker
- Paul D. Deane, An Introduction to Alliterative Verse for Readers and Writers of Speculative Fiction, in Interstellar Flight Magazine (May 15, 2026)
- Paul D. Deane, Tolkien’s Generation and Alliterative Verse, paper presentation at Westmoot, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 24-26, 2026.
- Colin Gorrie, How to Read Beowulf (and actually enjoy it)
- Michael Helsem, An Issue of Moment [On alliterative meter in modern English poems]
- Timothy Green & others discuss “How Poetry Actually Moves”. From -38:13 to -30:52,they discuss alliterative meter & Timothy Green reads one of his recent alliterative poems. Forgotten Ground Regained is alluded to.
- Klaus Johann Myrvol, The constitutive features of the dróttkvætt metre. Approaches to Nordic and Germanic poetry (2016): 229-256.
- Eric S. Rayburn, Riddle-Poems and How to Make Them
- Skaldic Project – Kennings (glossary of Norse Kennings)
- Tamarah Rockwood, The Whale Road: On the kenning, the oldest naming-game we still play
- Michael Smith, William of Palerne and the Alliterative Revival
- James Matthew Wilson, The Christian Humanism of A.M. Juster [Review of Wonder and Wrath]
- Dennis Wise, A Schema for Artorius: History, John Heath-Stubbs, and the Last Modernist Epic. Journal of the International Arthurian Society 12(1):134-156, 2024.
Links to Online Performances and Translations
- Paul and Deborah Deane, dramatic performance of The Song of Marwen and Fithurin, at Westmoot 2026.
- Elder Scrolls (Skyrim) Adonato’s Book and King Olaf’s Verse
- Math Jones on YouTube: Free Speech and Another Valley
- Jack Laurel, Weyland’s Revenge
- Dan Marsh, The Tale of Gaji’s Tent
- Arum Natzorkhang, A Hymn to the Rains (Vedic verse)
- Richard Jeffrey Newman, The Teller of Tales: Stories from the Shahnameh (loose imitation of alliterative verse)
- The Prancing Pony Podcast #84, To the Day’s Rising (Tolkien’s alliterative verse recited)
- Giles Watson, St. Govan’s Chapel, Pembrokeshire
- Anja Woosnam, Deor translation
Poems Posted on Blogs & Social Media Under the Author's Own Name
• Jacob Allee on X, The Valorum• Matthew Bacon on Instagram, Alliterative Accentuation
• Matt Becker on Bluesky, “Hark, I hear you …”• Elizabeth G. Biggs, The Lay of Lycäon, & the Gaerur-Dür
• Alexander Birch
- A Prayer in Alliterative Verse, or “Shrive and Dawn”
- Visions of a Friend, Parts One, Two, and Three
- Cædmon’s Chronicle [also includes audio version]
- An Exercise in Alliteration
- 2 Timothy 1:1-13 in alliterative verse
- Profane Not Thy Citadel
- Gwern Branwen, CSS Demo of Vertically Aligned Alliterative Verse in the Poem ‘Apollonian #1: The Counted & the Crowned’
- Bruce Byfield on X, “Arise, arise, ye alliterative writers…”
- Tim Chamberlain on the blog Shinobazu Pond, Dark into Light (a free-verse imitation of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse)
- William Derby, The Lay of Fer’rall’s Restoration, I-II, III, IV, V
- Chris Scott Edwards, The Astronomer’s Dream
- Anthony Etherin, My Unusual Pets (+ 2 alliterative sonnets)
- Margaret Fleming, Morning Mixture
- Van Fletcher, Epic of Lókka Fág Guínnas, Parts 1-2, Parts 3-4, and Parts 5-7
- Patrick Gillespie, My Heart’s Song on the Poemshape blog
- Coleman Glenn on X, Palm Sunday
- Timothy Green on Facebook, Forecast and on Spotify, "Containment" (audio: 24:13 to 25:38 on this podcast)
- Timothy Hamilton on Facebook, “Born to brave…”
- Andy Hawes, The Saga of the White Ravens
- Michael Helsem, experimental poems on Bluesky
- Diana Hershaw, Gore’s Saga
- Tom Hillman and Joe Hoffman, The Saga of Wigend’s Chicken Run
- On his blog Fyr Review:
- On X: The Expanding Verse
- J.W. Laurel, An Alliterative Iliad, parts 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 separately and together
- Siodhna McGowan, Kintsugi (alliterative free verse)
- D.C. Petterson, The Runic Edda
- Ben Quant
- Poem 397 – Alliterative Allies, Tricky Traitors
- Poem 415 -- Completed
- Poem 465 – An Avian Revival
- Poem 482 -- Pétanque
- Poem 637 – Today’s Poem
- Poem 674 – Twilight Driving
- Poem 680 – Season’s End
- Poem 685 – Ironing Shirts
- Poem 801 – Four Years
- Poem 871 -- Evensong
- Poem 880 – Cliffhanger
- Poem 952 – Evening Walk
- Steven Searcy on X, Vernal (alliterative free verse)
- Joe Terlisner, Winter Wind
- Judi van Gorder, Bondage Broken
- Steven Williams, The Book of Judges, Anglo-Saxon Style
Poem and Book Links Added
- Nico Solheim Davidson (ed.), C. Ryan Moniz (translator), Northumbrian Rune Poems. Reviewed on the Thunder Witch of the Woods blog.
- The Poet Interrogates ChatGPT 5.1 [tail-stave meter], in Indolent Books’ “Second Coming” series, no. 503, 6/6/2026.
- Cædmon Hears a Voice in the Night (It is Claude Sonnet 4.6) [strict Old English alliterative verse], in Indolent Books’ “Second Coming” series, no. 503, 7/6/2026.
- George Campbell Hay
- “The Sun over Athens”. (Originally in Saltire Review IV/11 (Summer, 1957), 31-33. In George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa) - Collected Poems and Songs, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 257-259
- “What Song is Ours”. In George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa) - Collected Poems and Songs, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, p. 11.
- Kathryn Ann Hill on Forgotten Ground Regained
- Rebuke Me Not (Psalm 6)
- God is My Shield (Psalm 7)
- A.M. Juster, The Ruin, in First Things
- J.Y.T. Kennedy, The King in Red, in Colleen Anderson (ed.) Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland, Exile Editions 2018. Reprinted on Forgotten Ground Regained.
• Susan L. Leary [alliterative free verse]
- Pseudo Myth, in The Inflectionist Review
- “Dear Hero, Dear Self” in A Buffet Table Fit for Queens
- Carter Revard, Some Riddles in Alliterative Verse, in Florilegium 18(2), 2001. Includes riddles not published elsewhere: "The Poet's Cottage", "Refrigerator" & "Detergent".
- Abigail Robejsek, Rorate Caeli in Amethyst Magazine [alliterative free verse]
- Lancelot Schaubert, Concrete in Watercolor. A collection of poems about New York City. Three sections: the first two contain free verse and metrical poems. The third contains twenty poems in alliterative verse
- Timothy Witchazel, The Saving of the City [Siege of Vienna]
Nominations and Awards
- Congratulations to FGR author Carla Galdo, winner of the 2026 Frost Farm Poetry Prize for her unpublished metrical (non-alliterative) poem, “The Absences are Different”, and to FGR author Steven Searcy, who got an honorable mention for his metrical (non-alliterative) poem “Χορός”
- Adam Bolivar’s 2025 collection, Told by Firelight in Timbered Halls has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2026 Elgin Award.
- Michael Hessel-Mial’s poem, Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2026 Rhysling Award.
- Dennis W. Wise’s Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology recently made the 2026 finalist list for the Mythopoeic Society's "Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies".
Poems Posted under Pseudonyms on Blogs and Social Media
- alieneye on Tumblr: Nahootsoi
- Amashelle, An Honorable Death
- Aondeug, Feicim Beatha
- Doc Brown, On Alki
- Chris, The Fall of Discord
- Don Quesote, Winter’s Saga Backgrounds
- Exmeanswithout, The Doorway, on Tumblr
- Knightwithahundredkings, “Worthy Gawain…” on Tumblr
- MagnusPharao on X: “Queen, belt out a banger …”
- pranicroom on X, “Trustworthy Tyr …”
- Lady Adriana Michaels (SCA Persona), Ealdgyth’s Lament
- Lady Isabelle de Narbonne (SCA Persona), Anglo-Saxon Riddle
- losselen (zambla), The Flowers of Finduilas [story with embedded alliterative verse]
- Meseem, Mockery, manifold
- Oregonian, The Seasons at the Castle [Autumn at the Castle]
- Poetry, Five Poems by Ferdinand von Aegir (and one by Hubert von Vestra) [A Fallen Hero Rises]
- Sesquiotic, Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf), on the Strong Language blog
- SkittyTail, An Affair that is Always (Arthurian Style Experiment)
- Spellis, The Woe-Wanderer (loosely alliterative)
- Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal (terza rima with alliterative verse dialogues, on itch.io)
- The Mountain, After (blank verse with alliterative verse dialogues, on itch.io)
- drafts on X: “And do gaunt lost ones …”
- on Bluesky: “Grin, on your gradcams …”
- The Red Thread, The King in the Circular Court
- Thoughts on Tolkien on X, An Elegy for Our Age
- totalserene560 on Tumblr, “There once was a boy…”
- Wingeater and Silby on Bluesky, Alliterative Haiku
- Zorbo_Jorks on Silmarillion Writers’ Guild: The Deaths of Túrin Turambar, Niënor Níniel, and Brandir the Lame. It was written for Mereth Aderthad 2025.
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