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Forgotten Ground Regained

Laura Varnam

Website: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com drlauravarnam on Bluesky @lauravarnam on X (formerly Twitter)
Laura Varnam is the Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford. She has published her poetry in a variety of literary journals and is currently working on a poetry collection on the women of Beowulf.
Her alliterative petry includes:
  • Freawaru: Peace-Pledge
  • Wealhtheow on the Whale-Road
  • Her Wordhoard
  • Dead Dragon, Deep Dragon
  • The Raven Goddesses
  • ‘An Æfter Anum’ in Banshee Lit
  • ‘Meresong’ in Wet Grain (issue 4, Summer 2023)
  • Ellen the Elder
  • A New Woman at Beowulf’s Funeral Pyre
  • The King is Dead [Watch this Space]
  • Queen Wealhtheow: Cup-bearer
  • Riddle I
  • The Woman’s Lament’ and ‘Hygd (Reflection)
  • (Hygd and Seek)
  • ‘I am the Queen without a Name’, ‘Indeed’, ‘Grendel’s Mother’, ‘Wealhtheow on the Whale-Road’, and ‘A Gift Between Queens’ in The Oxford Magazine (Autumn 2020)
  • ‘Beowulf’s Mother’, ‘Grendel’s Sister’, ‘Teen Maiden’, and ‘Beowulf and Eadwacer’ in Dreich magazine (Season 3 no 11)
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