Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Adam Bolivar
Website: https://adambolivar.com/: @AdamBolivar on X (formerly Twitter)
Adam Bolivar is a formal poet of dark fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales. He is the author of The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press, 2017), The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill (Jackanapes Press, 2021), Ballads for the Witching Hour (Hippocampus Press 2022) and A Wheel of Ravens (Jackanapes Press, 2023), a collection of original alliterative verse. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry on this site:
- A Riddle, originally published in What Remains, Firbolg Publishing, 2022
- The Cuckoo
- The Battlefield, originally published in Spectral Realms No. 19, Hippocampus Press, 2023
His poem "The Lay of Geac Ettin-Fell" appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse.
Other alliterative verse he has published includes:
- “The King of Cats,” published in The Weird Cat, Wordcrafts Press, 2023,
- “Randwulf’s Return,” published in For the Outsider: Poems About H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, 2023
- “The Song of the Sword,” published in Spectral Realms No. 18, Hippocampus Press, 2023 [Video Version]
- “Mothers’ Night” published in The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer: A Thirteenth Anniversary Edition, Sigil House Productions, 2023, and in Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2021
- “The Vampire of the Fens” published in The Vampiricon: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire, Mind’s Eye Publications, 2023
- “Heolstor”, published in Spectral Realms No. 17, Hippocampus Press, 2022
- “In a Haunted Holler,” published in Spectral Realms No. 16 Hippocampus Press, 2022
- "The Dreag", in Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice, 2023.
- “The Owlmoot,” published in Spectral Realms No. 21, Hippocampus Press, 2024
- “Géac Yoresung,” published in Weird Fiction Quarterly: Folk Horror, 2024