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Math Jones
Website: linktr.ee/mathjones
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@MathJonesPoet on X (formerly Twitter)
Math Jones is a British poet & a practicing Pagan. He has two books published: Sabrina Bridge (Black Pear Press), & The Knotsman (also an audiobook, Arachne Press). His work has appeared in various journals, & various anthologies, including Dennis Wise's Speculative Poetry & the Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, & on Forgotten Ground Regained. His spoken-word album of Heathen verse. 'eaglespit', can be heard on bandcamp.com.
He has the following poems on this site:
In the Inaugural Issue
- Aurgelmir (in the Inaugural Issue)
- 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)]
In Issue 6
Published Elsewhere
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
Also on social media: The Sly God's Son, Second Nature Now, 'Each frenzied grain, each fibre ...', 'Stories told, Tolkien Dreams ...' and 'Were you wolf, would you bite ...'. In early 2025, he also announced on social media (and provided samples) of his ongoing project to create a modern English alliterative verse version of the Prose Edda.
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