Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor
Judd Bemmels
Website: juddbemmels.com
thefoldedship on Instagram
Judd Bemmels is an evolutionary biologist with a special affection for trees. He first became interested in alliterative verse after reading translations of the medieval alliterative classics and through the Heathen (Germanic Neopagan) community. His poetry is inspired by an appreciation for the natural world, an interest in folklore and mythology, and time spent in the woods of the many places he has lived, including British Columbia, the Midwest / Great Lakes region, the Deep South, and Germany.
His poem Skaði and Njörðr appears in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 6, Spring, 2025.
One of his major projects, Spruce took aim with an inky spear: Tree poems in alliterative verse, is a sequence of 62 poems celebrating different species of trees. Four of these poems appear in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 5, Winter, 2025:
Judd Bemmel's other poems (posted to his account @thefoldedship on Instagram) focus on the gods and goddesses of Heathen (ancient Germanic) culture:
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