Forgotten Ground Regained
Laura Varnam
Website: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com
@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)