Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Math Jones
Website: linktr.ee/mathjones
@MathJonesPoet on X (formerly Twitter)
Math Jones is a British poet and a practicing pagan. He has the following poems on this site:
- Aurgelmir
- Catching Loopy
- Hoder's Song [originally appeared in Withowinde (Tha Engliscan Gesithas), 1997; also published in Numen Books, Northern Traditions, 047316283, 2011] [video version]
- Mother's Song (excerpt) [video version] (on Bandcamp: audio version) [originally appeared in Kvasir (Troth UK, 1997) and in Líma (Frigga's Web, 1997)]
The following poems appear on Michaela Macha's website, Odin's Gift:
- Skadhi's Laughter (on Bandcamp: audio version; on Youtube: video version)
- Tyr-Song (on Bandcamp: audio version; on Youtube: video version [originally published in Numen Books, Northern Traditions, 047316283, 2011]
His work also appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse and in audio form on the album Eaglespit on Bandcamp:
- Housepost (on Bandcamp: audio version) [video version]
- Lenctenlong (on Bandcamp: audio version) [video version] [originally appeared in Thunder, 2000] [Reviewed by Dennis Wise]
Other alliterative poems from the album Eaglespit are available on Bandcamp as audio recordings, including:
The following poems are available as audio recordings from Soundcloud:
- The Sailor and the Mermaid [Video Version]
- Gylfaginning (translation from the Poetic Eddas) [Video Version]
- Skaldskaparmal
The following poems are available via a Youtube performance:
- Ðonar
- Dragon Song
- For Thorskegga Thorn
- Gladsheim
- Hærfast
- Hervör
- Odhinn's Pledge
- The Doom of Loki
- The Lay of Beli
- Praise Song for Frigga
- Silv Song
- þing blot
- A Knotsman Poem: The Route the Trouble Takes
- Bear Shirt, a funeral poem
- Forþfēran, a poem of farewell
- From Mimir’s Well
- Grim
- Kinder Lay
- Odhinn on the Tree
- Völva
- Whispers
He has also published the following alliterative poems:
- Song for Forgotten Fathers, in Kvasir (Troth UK, 1996), Líma (Frigga's Web, 1997), and Hex Magazine (2010).
- Baldur's Birth in Ravenbred (1999)
- Grithspell in The Other Side of Sleep, Arachne Press, 2014. [video version]
- "Spákona" in"The Gronthee, 4, special issue (Sauda Arts), 2019.
- Hymn for the Vanadis in Pagan Federation Anthology of Pagan Poetry, 0710326932, 2019.
- The Chase at Yuletide on the Fevers of the Mind poetry website, Winter 2021, link: 3 new poems by Math Jones : Sunfall, Yule Prayer, The Chase at Yuletide