Forgotten Ground Regained
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Martin Kennedy Yates
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Martin Kennedy Yates was born on Merseyside and raised in the Black Country region of the English Midlands. He is an emerging poet who has had work in recent editions of The Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Butcher’s Dog, Anthropocene, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Storms, Finished Creatures, The Alchemy Spoon, The Madrigal, and Magma.
His alliterative verse on this site includes the following poems published in the Fall, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse. They appeared as companions to his article, What Causes Sir Gawain to Go at a Gallop, which develops his views about what makes alliterative verse work rhythmically. These poems are written in an invented language that mimics some of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic features of Middle English, as well as drawing on the regional accents and dialects of the poet's own origins in the Midlands and North West of England - most notably the Black Country, the Potteries and Liverpool. To get a feel and flow, just read phonetically, out loud and keep going. Enjoy letting the alliterative beat and rhythm carry you along, and don't worry about getting it wrong!
These poems also appear in his recent collection, This Wilderness and Other Concerns.
Additional alliterative poems he has written include:
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