Forgotten Ground Regained
ISSN 2996-6353
New Series Issue 7, Summer, 2025
Publications Noted
Nominations and Awards
- Adam Bolivar’s poetry collection, Wheel of Ravens, was recently nominated for the SFPA's Elgin Award.
- Colin Mackenzie recently was joint winner of the Scots Language Society's Hugh McDiarmid Tassie for his drottkvætt poem Merry Dancers. His poem Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar placed also placed second in the society’s Lallans Sangschaw.
- Pat Masson's The Last Valkyrie is a finalist for the SFPA's Rhysling Award and will be reprinted in the 2025 Rhysling Anthology.
- Dennis Wise’s Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society’s Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies.
Articles, Reviews, Discussions on Blogs
- Colin Gorrie, How to Get Started with Old English Poetry
- Colin Gorrie, Don’t Read Heaney’s Beowulf: The Cost of a Beautiful Translation
- Michael Helsem, Pieces of Cosette: A Lost 20th-Century Alliterative Practitioner
- Himring, Interview with Paul Deane about his upcoming Mereth Aderthad presentation, “Love, Grief and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium”
- Olesia Kovtun, Sowulo: Confronts Personal Grief With Dark Folk Ritual on New Album ‘NIHT’
- Anita Leirfall, Cynghanedd: The Greatest Poetic Metre You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
- Emelyn Phillips, Ghosts in the Manuscript: Gawain, Glendwr, and the Maginogion
- Prancing Pony Podcast, Fealty Kept He
- James Turner, From Troy to Camelot: The Classical Origins of King Arthur
- Announcement: New Web Tool: Transcriptions and Annotations for Manuscript Research : CSMC : University of Hamburg
- Announcement: Conference on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History, University of East Anglia, Sept. 1, 2025
- Announcement: Our Longland is Dreaming, an ecopoetry event
Links to Alliterative Verse in Blogs & Social Media
Jacob Allee
- My Unusual Pets (alliterative sonnet).
Colleen S. Harris
Janina Aza Karpinska
- God in the Garden in the Amethyst Review
Sandra Noel
Jordan River
- Draft text for “The Butlerian Chronicle”.
David Rowe
Poem and Book Links Added
In Illuminations of the Fantastic, Volume 17, Epic Poetry III, Forgotten Ground Regained: The Modern Alliterative Revival:
- Rahul Gupta, reprint of Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf.
- Thomas Suddell, Bede’s Sparrow.
- Adam Bolivar, Géac of the Lantern.
- Michael Helsem, The Beowulf Poet Speaks.
- J.W. Laurel, Weyland’s Revenge.
- Spruce Took Aim with an Inky Spear, a collection of 62 alliterative verse ecopoems celebrating different species of tree.
Matthew Collins
- Dragon Tomes: A Harrowing Ode to Antiquity. Alliterative free verse strongly reminiscent of Norse forms.
- Fragments of alliterative verse (the voice of a god) in her novel, Saint Death’s Herald
- The Lady Speaks (Excerpt from his ongoing translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), in Illuminations of the Fantastic, Volume 17, Epic Poetry III.
- The Green Man, in The North American Anglican
- Time Travel in Minds of Fire Books.
- The Odds and Ends: The Sidewalk Memorandum, in The Hudson Review.
- Sir Percival, in Illuminations of the Fantastic, Volume 17, Epic Poetry III
- Bjarndýr and the Marsh Monster: A Danta of Somhairle na Dagney (Lord Sorley of Gundarstorp), Scáeli of Linrathe (Empire's Legacy). A retelling of the Beowulf story set in the world of the author’s Empire series.
Kit Whitfield
- Fragments of alliterative verse (the voice of a talking pig) in her novel All the Hollow of the Sky
Poems Posted under Pseudonyms on Blogs and Social Media
Alin
AdVictoriam65
- Dust Sceawing on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org
Cannedpecans
- The Dream of the Car; or, Why You Shouldn’t Take Naps in the DOL on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org.
Dawn Felagund
- Crossing Forest River, on Silmarillion Writers’ Guild (Pearl meter).
Wayne Lin
- The Song of the Mighty and Faithful on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org
Orthostatics
- The Death of Walda of Rohan; or, Herawyn, Battle Lover, the Girl who Saved the Mark on ArchiveOf OurOwn.org.
Thaliarchus
Teutonic Tom
Thoughts on Tolkien
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