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Forgotten Ground Regained

ISSN 2996-6353
New Series Issue 3, Winter, 2024

Publications Noted

Poems and Book Links Added
Judith Barrington
  • Afterimage from Horses and the Human Soul
Rob Batton
  • Satan and St. Michael in Bearings
Earle Birney
  • “War Winters” in The Collected Poems of Earle Birney (also, “Anglosaxon Street”)
Matthew Brennan
  • The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan
Nancy Campbell
  • Kinguleruttui / The Survivors (from Disko Bay)
Brenda Cardenas
  • From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Contains the alliterative poem, "Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English")
Philip Chase
  • Fragments of alliterative verse in The Way of Edan
Agatha Christie
  • “Down in the Wood” from Star Over Bethlehem
Frank Coffman
  • "Gods of the Garden" in Spectral Realms 19
  • "The Veil is Torn" in Black Flames and Gleaming Shaodws
Susan Edwards
  • Slaying the Dragon
  • The Paths of the Dead
  • Beauty, Light and Music: Poetry and Prose (Contains two alliterative poems: “Slaying the Dragon” and “Ancient Entities Enduring Eternity”)
David R. Ewbank
  • The Lamb Cycle (contains the alliterative poem “The Anxiety of Age”), a humorous riff on Auden’s Age of Anxiety.
Amanda Gorman
  • New Days Lyric
Malcolm Guite
  • The Singing Bowl (contains the alliterative poem Tree and Leaf)
  • After Prayer: New Sonnets and Other Poems (contains the alliterative poem Empty)
Ada Hoffman
• Octopi Viewing a Submersible in Strange Horizons
Katharine Kerr
  • The Gift of Shadows
Rosemary Kirstein
  • Fragments of two alliterative poems, in her novels The Steerswoman and The Outskirter’s Secret
Roy Liuzza (translator)
  • Old English Poetry: An Anthology (includes Old English Riddle #44 and #47)
Charles Martin
• Poem for the Millenium from Signs and Wonders
Cassidy McFadzean
• Riddlehoard. First published in Riddlehoard: o Beneath a golden altar o His arms primed o I smile earwide• Hacker Packer. First published in Hacker Packer: o Born of a wolf o The ship shall be nailed, the shield be bound
Timothy Miller
• Pythagoras
Paul Park
  • Ragnarok
Joshua Philipp
• Unshaken Faith and Other Poems
Richard Pierce
  • The Book of Mankey (Contains the alliterative free verse poems “Exhausted, Mankey Sleeps, Dreams He’s His Dead Dog, Mitch” and “Bearly”)
Pedro Poitevin
• Antimatter
Claudia Putnam
  • The Land of Stone and River: Poems (contains the alliterative poems “Migraines” and “The Battle of Brintellix”)
B.F. Randall (ed.)
  • The Peregrine and the Rune (alliterative verse translations from Old English)
Bertha Rogers (translator)
  • Uncommon Creatures (Exeter Book Riddles)
Rik Roots
  • Snowdrop: A Story in Verse
Jane Satterfield
Apocalypse Mix (contains the alliterative free verse poems “Bestiary for a Cemetery” and “Cursing for Beginners”), plus other poems (Spellcasters and Errant Queen, Spring Charm with Wildlife Camera, Incantation for a Vanished Visitor and Night.
Mariana Scott (translator)
  • The Heliand (original text)
Peter Sutton
  • Elgar Country (contains “The Healing Hills” and “The Hereford Statue”)
Jeff Sypeck
  • The Beallsville Calendar
  • Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles (contains the alliterative poems “Mearcstapa”, “Theodicy”, and “Riddle”
  • Translation of The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier.
Robert Trainor
  • Requiem for the West (Contains the poem “Requiem for the West”, in a stanzaic alliteration form)
Lewis Turco
  • The Hero Enkidu
Christopher Webster
  • Hengest
Kathleene West
  • Alliterative Accentual Verse, With Love in Prairie Schooner 77.4 (2003), pp. 28-29.
P.F. Widdows (translator)
  • The Fables of Phaedrus
Links to Online Performances and Translations
Marie Borroff (translator)
  • Noah’s Flood (from “Purity”) in The Yale Review
A.Z. Foreman
  • David's Grief
  • Psalm 113
  • Opening of the Odyssey
  • Scylla and Charybdis scene from the Odyssey
  • Homeric Hymn to Ares
  • The Epitaph of Gnaeus Naevius
  • The Ruin by Dafd ap Gwilym
  • A poem by Qays ibn Al-Mulawwaḥ
  • On the Recapture of Al-Hadith by Al-Mutannabi
  • Bārbad's lament for Khusraw Parwēz
  • Saadi: Golestan 1.10
  • Li Bai's Borderland Moon
  • The Lay of Igor's Campaign
Harry Frost (video narrator)
  • St. Erkenwald
Math Jones (author/video narrator)
  • A Knotsman Poem: The Route the Trouble Takes
  • Bear Shirt, a funeral poem
  • Forþfēran, a poem of farewell
  • From Mimir’s Well
  • Grim
  • Kinder Lay
  • Odhinn on the Tree
  • Völva
  • Whispers
Damian Love
  • The Old English Exodus: A Verse Translation.
Andrew MacBaine
  • Form Challenge
David Russell Mosley (author/video narrator)
  • "Arthur Comes to Windermere," "My Dear Dumbledore," and "The Gnomes." (video recording)
B.F. Randall (translator)
  • The Fortunes of Men
Lancelot Schaubert (author/video narrator)
  • The Rings of Venus
Albreda
  • Form Challenge
From Mimisbrunnr.info
  • Lytla Skalda (Icelandic poetry manual)
  • Other resources and translations
Links to Alliterative Verse in Blogs
Sigrun Aldgyth
  • A Lay for Earendel
  • Eostre Descends into Hell
  • Lay of the Barrow Wight
  • The Legend of Hildebrand
  • Weland and the Silver Hand
Edith de Brereton (SCA Persona)
  • Baldr’s Death
  • Battle Poem
  • Hyrst Werre
  • Wilhelm’s Insult Poem
  • Wyrd
Björn Brudberg
  • Before Thunder
  • Creature of the Night
S.R. Hardy
  • A Norse Bestiary
  • Beloved of All, But One
  • Eiriksmal
  • The Chaining of Loki
  • The Snake and the Kettle
  • Through Blood, the Knowledge
Jamie Lennon (Teleri the Well-Prepared)
  • Brynhild and Sigurth
  • Signe's Lament
  • Hall-Builders
  • Storvikmandius
  • Wild Geese Fly
  • Processional for Novice Tournament/Challenge of the Heart
  • Coronation April 2009
  • For the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival 2009 Winners
  • Oldcastle Memorial 2009
  • Peace-Weaver
  • Endings and Beginnings
  • Storvik's Sea Captain
  • For Sylvanus Perrin
  • Christ and Theseus
  • The Lay of Storvik's Founding
  • Seven Virtues
  • Hereward's Crown
  • The Mere-Wife
  • Wulf and Eadwacer (translation)
  • Storviksaga
  • A Poem About Some Fighting
Jonathan Lovelace
  • Christmas Marvels
  • Spring Morning
  • Gardens
Michael Murray
  • Bogusword
  • Hormonally Pigmented Puppets on Parade
@spiders
  • Bureau of Consensus
  • Bedtime Stories
@whoshim
  • Old English style alliterative poetry
  • Another Alliterative Attempt
  • Ten
  • Home for Christmas
  • Going Mad
  • Endeavor
  • Humility’s Victory
  • The Valley of Kings
  • The Wyrm and the Son of Man
  • A Dream

Other Bloggers

  • A Colony of Ants, a Flamboyant of Flamingos, and a Bloat of Hippopotamus Met One Day by Lillian the Home Poet
  • A first foray into alliterative verse and a second attempt by Richard Bicknase
  • A Place for Peace of Mind by Elizabeth Eaton
  • A Poem on Reenactment
  • A Tale of the Town and Gown by Michelle Reid
  • Aftermath of an Affair by Laura Bloomsbury
  • Ashra and the Dragon by Ryan M. Irvine
  • Aurora Artificialis by @endlessforms
  • Avid Haunt by BrandiBeeMital
  • Blades (Friends at the Table fanfic) by bircheswatching
  • Bondage Broken by Judi van Gorder
  • Claiming the Crown, by Mathias Blacket
  • Corene Cneoris by Alias Ela
  • Death in Winter by Jane Dougherty
  • Down to the Deepest Depths by sifaseven
  • Eao’s Lament: An Alliterative Epic by Child_of_Scorn
  • Example of alliterative verse by The Anglo-Scandinavian Chronicles
  • February by Kittysverses
  • Frithugairns at Adrianople
  • Giving Anglo-Saxon Poetry a Go by Chris Thorndycroft
  • Grant Me a Boat by Andrew Wilson
  • Heroes Still Living by Elizabeth Barrette
  • Heroics by Dyfn Pencerdd (Buck Marchington)
  • I Heard the Horns in the Hills Ringing by Jacob Andrews
  • Just a Dint by Kim M. Russell
  • Like a Daemon by Paul Vincent Cannon
  • Méliès’ The Astronomer’s Dream, Realized in Modified Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Verse by Chris Edwards
  • Night’s Possessions by M.S. Jadeli
  • Praying poetry, or: Soothing but -- by The Skeptic's Kaddish
  • Psalm 119 א ALEPH— Do Not Forsake Me by Esther Spurrill-Jones
  • Seeping Scarlet Screams by Nthato Morakabi
  • Shade Tree Mechanic by Dwight L. Roth
  • The Bard by Kathy Labrum
  • The Baronial List of Bryn Madoc on the Occasion of the Investiture of Knut and Simon by FBG
  • The Lay of the Lore-Maiden by McMaster Archives & Research Collections
  • The Merits of a King and Boru’s CoronationVerses by Dyfn ap Meurig, Pencerdd
  • The Raven Banner (audio) by Mistress Caitlin
  • The Road I Walk by Dorahak
  • The Saga of Kalaman the Seeker by Gary C. Wilkens
  • The Sixth Day by Ben Quant
  • The Tree-Splitter by Paul McCollum
  • The Windsong Testaments: Fafnheir's Lament by Jason Tondro
  • Things I Want or Don't Want to Eat or Drink Right Now
  • Trials, Troubles, Blessings and Praise by Sarah Nderi
  • Water: Lake under Sun and Breezes by Arahant
  • What is Absinthe by Eirik Westcoat
  • Who Knows by Punam
  • World Awakening by Stacey Harris
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