Forgotten Ground Regained
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Adam Bolivar
Website: https://adambolivar.com/:
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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.
His poetry on this site includes:
In Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Inaugural Issue, Fall, 2025
- A Riddle, originally published in What Remains, Firbolg Publishing, 2022
- The Cuckoo
- The Battlefield, originally published in Spectral Realms No. 19, Hippocampus Press, 2023
In Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 6, Spring, 2025
His poem "The Lay of Geac Ettin-Fell" appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse.
A Wheel of Ravens was nominated for the Elgin Prize, awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Two of his poems, "A Vampyre of the Fens" from A Wheel of Ravens, and "The Battlefield" were recommended in Ellen Datlow's recommendations for Best Horror of the Year.
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
- “Grim Guise,” published in Weird Fiction Quarterly: Masquerade 2024
- "The Lyre of Lúca" and "To Haunt Ancestral Tombs" in Spectral Realms 22.
Other poems he has written or performed include:
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