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Forgotten Ground Regained

ISSN 2996-6353
New Series Issue 8, Fall, 2025

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
  • Michael Hessel-Mial, Behind the Poem: Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation.
  • Joe Hoffman
  • 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
  • The Misconception Behind Beowulf’s Name
  • The Syntax of Beowulf
  • Thaliarchus, Spearhand Faring postmortem
  • George Walkden, The Status of Hwæt in Old English. English Language and Linguistics.
Links to Online Performances and Translations
  • Nik Gunn, Welcome to Set Yet Speaking (plus a translation of Beowulf lines 1687-98a)
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
  • Poem 413 -- Run
  • Poem 414 -- Season's End
  • Poem 453 – Fragments From a Forgotten Saga
  • Poem 686 -- "Interviews and in-laws …”
  • Poem 723 – Twilight Driving
  • 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
  • The Fight for the Necklace
  • The Binding Ones
  • Gudrun and Brynhild
  • Gerd Meets Frey
  • Fenris Unleashed
  • The Song of the Mill
  • Starkad's Fate
  • The Lay of Hildebrand
  • Hakon's Passage version 1
  • Hakon's Passage version 2
  • Under the Cloak
  • Hadding
  • Angrboða
  • Son of Fury
  • 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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