Forgotten Ground Regained
ISSN 2996-6353
New Series Issue 6, Spring, 2025
Publications Noted
Articles, Reviews, Discussions on Blogs
- NPR, The Academic Minute, Interview with Dennis Wise on Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival
- Robert Keim, A Comparison of Beowulf Translations
- Jack Laurel, The Muse of Song
- Colin Mackenzie, Dróttkvætt: A Note on the Metre (blog post in Scots)
- James Paz, 'Storm-Thoughts and Ice-Songs: A Creative-Critical Response to Old English Eco-Poetry', forthcoming in Postmedieval. Includes an alliterative verse “eco-poem”.
Links to Alliterative Verse in Blogs & Social Media
- Winner: Kelly Scott Franklin, Maker’s Marks
- Stephen Bauhart, Alberta Prairie Breeze
- Eric Colbrun, Untidy and Simple
- Paul D. Deane, What a Perfect Poem and Welcome to Our Website
- Andre Demers, The Gardener Mind
- Michael Helsem, Prayer Breakfast
- Steve Knepper, Farmhouse Cellar
- Liv Ross, In the Spirit of Bezalel
- Grant Shimmin, Spring Song and Meeting the ‘Hood Patrol on My Two-Wheeled Commute
Jacob Allee
Jarom Scott Andrews
- First page of a supernatural folk horror script featuring the opening scene of Sir Gawain an the Green Knight in both Middle and Modern English
Joseph Fasano
Jason Green
Henry Gibbs (ed.)
- The Romance of the Cheuelere Assigne (Middle English text), 1868.
Paul Guernsey
- Bear Spray (AA/BB alliteration)
Jack Hart
- Three Skaldic Poems and a Rant on Form
- The Skillful Huntsman (now through part 6)
- Part 1: Intro and Second Thoughts
- Part 2: Meets & Flights
- Part 3: Deals in the Dark
- Part 4: Moonlit Mansion
- Part 5: Dread Dispatches
- Part 6: Maiden’s Meeting
- Part 7: Wind's Whispers
Michael Helsem
- Michael Helsem, poems posted at Pearltrees, plus experimental poems under #rumramruf on Bluesky
Ken Hunt
Math Jones
- 'Were you wolf, would you bite …’
- ‘There is a worst / that will happen …’
- ‘Each frenzied grain, each fibre ….;
- ‘Stories told, Tolkien dreams …’
- Social media announcement (with samples) of his ongoing alliterative verse version of the Prose Edda.
Jack Laurel
Colin Mackenzie
Siodhna McGowan
- Spring Equinox (alliterative free verse)
James Moffett
- Concluding Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur
Rose Novick
G.T.A. Ogle
Mark Antony Owen
Andy Perrin
- “The winter copse …”
Ben Quant
Alex Rettie
Michael Smith
Todd H.C. Smith (SCA persona Colyne Stewart)
- The Lion-Wolf of Ealdormere (Book including poems in various Norse alliterative styles)
Marian L. Thorpe
- “Hrothgar and Hryllingur” (a reimagined Beowulf, planned arc completed in 22 parts)
Poem and Book Links Added
Bob Beagrie
- A Festival of Words and Images. Starbeck Orion, Issue #8: A Festschrift of Bob Beagrie.
Adam Bolivar
- “The Lyre of Lúca” and “To Haunt Ancestral Tombs” in Spectral Realms 22.
Patrick Bond
- For Thine is the Crow, in needle writers.
Lisa Cooper
- March in New York, "The Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin", and “Dusk” (first printed in Ekstasis Magazine) in Hasty Corporeal Ink (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
Paul D. Deane
- The Song of David and Abishag, in The Brazen Head.
Jeremiah Dodds
Damien Donnelly
- Video of “Eat the Storms” from his 2020 pamphlet.
Christiana Doucette
- Stand of Birches (alliterative free verse), in oneartpoetry.
Bryn Hammond
- Imitations of Mongolian alliterative verse) in From Against Walls (Amgalant, Book I): “He leaves by high passes …”, “His head is forfeit …” (based on Wulf and Eadwacer), “The tribe of the Ongirat …”, “Of captains, of comrades, seen in the world …”, “I am Toqtoa …”, “I splash with milk liquor … ”, “Through great fear have I lived …”, “The black crow has his fate …”
Nicholas Korn
- The Wild Sonnets (melding alliteration with the sonnet form)
Jared Toby Philips
- "To My Champion” in A Mouth of Honey and Blood: Poems and Proverbs for the Gods and Ungods
Kit Whitfield
- All the Hollow of the Sky, a fantasy novel featuring, among other things, a pig that declaims in alliterative verse
Timothy Witchazel
- Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. Self-published on Amazon.
Patrick Connor Wood
- Rapture, in Amethyst Review
Links to Online Performances and Translations
A.Z. Foreman
- For Two Old English Poets, in The Brazen Head (translations of Deor and Beowulf’s “Lament of the Last Survivor”)
Seamus Heaney
- Reading his translation of Beowulf
Poems Posted under Pseudonyms on Blogs and Social Media
Fiona of Clare
Lord Ishmael Reed
B2Mem
Runskra
Thaliarchus
Wifewolf (@rimahadley.bsky.social)
- “In colors clear …”
Alias Ela [site down at time of publication]
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