Forgotten Ground Regained
ISSN 2996-6353
Publications Noted
Awards
- Pat Masson’s The Last Valkyrie from Issue #2 was not only a finalist, but won an honorable mention in the Rhysling Award competition. It has now appeared in the 2025 Rhysling Anthology.
Articles, Reviews, Discussions on Blogs, and Other Web Resources
- Douglas A. Anderson, Review of Dennis W. Wise (ed.), Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, in Mythlore.
- BeowulfTranslations.net provides resources on Beowulf, including comparisons of over 100 English translations
- CLASP (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry) provides parses of Old English poetry, including Beowulf.
- Paul D. Deane
- Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium. Presentation at Mereth Aderthad, 2025. (Video available here).
- Alliterative Verse in Arda (Oxonmoot 2025 presentation)
- The Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Alliterative Revival (with notes on its early 20th century roots). Presentation at the Conference on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History, the University of East Anglia, Sept. 1, 2025.
- Nelson Goering, The Fall of Arthur and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún : A Metrical Review of Three Modern English Alliterative Poems. Journal of Inklings Studies.
- Michael Helsem
- Getting Your Feet Wet in Old Norse Prosody
- The Impossible Meter (contains pretty much all the dróttkvætt published in modern English by 2024)
- Pieces of Cosette, A Lost Early Twentieth-Century Alliterative Practitioner
- New Perspectives in Alliteration (well, half, anyway). Report on the Conference on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History at the University of East Anglia, Sept. 1, 2025.
- The Hunt for Alliterative Melody. Presentation at the Conference on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History at the University of East Anglia, Sept. 1, 2025.
- Tom Johnson, Supereffable (a review of Chasing the Pearl Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delights, by Arthur Baht), in the London Review of Books.
- Jack Laurel, Anglo-Saxon Rhythms and The Muse of Song
- Pauline Park, Tolkien & The Anglo-Saxon Heritage of Beowulf
- Saroful, How To: My Ridiculous Dróttkvætt Writing Process, on Textwall.
- Graham Scheper
- Thaliarchus, Spearhand Faring postmortem
- George Walkden, The Status of Hwæt in Old English. English Language and Linguistics.
Links to Online Performances and Translations
Poems Posted on Blogs & Social Media Under the Author's Own Name
- G. Finlayson Boswell, On the Diminishment of Seafarers’ Laments
- Paul Vincent Cannon, Wiles
- Paul D. Deane, “English speech eagerly moves …”
- Karen Pierce Gonzalez, After Hours (alliterative free verse)
- Alex Guenther, alliterative haiku
- James Hart
- Earbending (drottkvætt)
- Sense the Shift
- Michael Helsem, multiple experimental poems on Bluesky under the hashtag #rumramruf.
- Keith Howden, Language for Stone
- Dennis Johnstone, Build Me No Castle
- Math Jones
- Wyrd is simply / the way things are … (fornyrðislag)
- Boc (Part 1 / Part 2) (fornyrðislag)
- Jack Laurel, “…The might of the architect …”
- Kris Lindbeck, After Cædmon
- Ben Quant
- Alex Rettie, There Is A Lady
- Edward Rinaldi, alliterative haiku
- David Rowe, Psalm 133
- Lindsay Sfara, Heart’s Drum
- Andrew Smardon, Ideas of North (translations of skaldic poetry)
- Matthew M.C. Smith, A Garden at a Stately Home
- Michael Smith, Behold the shifting, shingled shore …
- Laura Varnam, ‘Against Misdirection’: Mapping Poetic Desire Lines in Creative Criticism on Beowulf
- Zdenka Waldner, The Death of Bëor the Old
Poem and Book Links Added
- Adam Bolivar, Told by Firelight in Timbered Halls: A Wordhord of Alliterative Verse. Jackanapes Press, August 20, 2025.
- Jackson Crawford, Poetic Edda, 2nd edition, 2025.
- Ágnes Cserháti, Ghost Hands, in Dust Poetry (alliterative free verse)
- Joshua C. Frank, First Dealings with Death, Society of Classical Poets
- Timothy Green, Pre-War Revolver
- Christine Gullette, The Fates, at Poets.org (alliterative free verse)
- Colleen Harris, The Letter L, in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily.
- Rolfe Humphreys, Green Armor on Green Ground: Poems in the twenty-four official Welsh Meters and Some in free meters, on Welsh themes. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956.
- J.M. Jordan, Overheard Whisper from a Backyard Fort, in New Verse Review. (half lines without consistent alliteration)
- Peter J. King, Riddle, in Unruly Riddles, Lucy Newlyn & Darrell Barnes (eds.), Chough Publications, 2020.
- Amit Majmudar
- Word-Hord, in The New Criterion.
- Pink in The Dark Horse magazine
- Brian Murdoch (editor and translator), Old High German Poetry: An Anthology. Uppsala Books, 2025.
- Brian O’Sullivan, King Lear’s Museum of Nothing in New Verse Review.
- Emily Osborne, The Making of a Poem: The Cruel Loss of Sons (translation of Norse poem by Egil Skallagrímsson), in The Paris Review.
- Alice Oswald, Mist. In The Guardian. Alliterative free verse.
- Steven Rojcewicz, Saint Patrick and the Short Pint, in Capital Psychiatry, the e-magazine of the Washington Psychiatric Society.
- Steve Searcy, Fiber to the Home, in the September issue of IEEE Spectrum, both in print and online.
- Thomas Sharp, A Manner, A Turn, A Way (Our Longland is Dreaming)
- Joy Sullivan, Tomatoes, in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper (alliterative free verse)
- Laura Varnam, Grendel’s Mother Bites Back: Poems wið Beowulf. Primers Volume Seven from Nine Arches Press.
- Theresa Werba, Bleed, Saxon Blood, in Society of Classical Poets
- Eirik Westcoat, Shining Mead. Skaldic Eagle 2025.
- Martin Kennedy Yates, This Wilderness and Other Concerns. Broken Spine Press, 2025. Contains the “Scousenlish” poems previously published in Forgotten Ground Regained.
- Jeff Young, Burial, in New Verse Review.
Poems Posted under Pseudonyms on Blogs and Social Media
- Alfgifu, Mighty in Paperwork
- @alinhumairaa, “Who hurled the moon …”
- chalkwhitehands, translation from Hippolytus
- @drplaces, “Sacred stones stand silhouetted …”
- Quest for Glory (game): Anglo-saxon style alliteration in-game
- Runekaster_Juvenilia, Feathersorg the Mighty
- Thaliarchus, Spearhand Faring (on itch.io)
- @tolkienthoughts, a flyting scene from Beowulf
- @whoshim, Reassigned to Rigel II and The Stand
- Zorbo_Jorks, The Death of Túrin Turambar, Niënor Níniel, and Brandir the Lame, in 2005-2025 Mereth Aderthad Fanzine.
Posted to the alliterative poetry page on Michaela Macha’s site, Odin’s Gift
- Michaela Macha
- Math Jones, Almighty Frey
- Lady Rosalind Jehanne, At the Battle of Maldon
- Mikal Hrafspa, The Skaldkonger (Bard King)
- Celestial Elf, The Mead of Poetry
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