Forgotten Ground Regained
Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was a noted science fiction and fantasy author and one of the main engines driving the revival of alliterative verse in the speculative fiction community.
Except for one short poem, JRRT, from Mythlore 69 (p. 33, Summer, 1992), the bulk of his alliterative verse appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse. This includes all of the following poems:
- Epigraph to “Chain of Logic” (originally published in "Chain of Logic", Astounding Science Fiction, July 1947)
- The Scothan Queen (originally published in "Tiger by the Tail", Planet Stories, Jan. 1951) [Review by Dennis Wise]
- The First Love (originally published in Amra, 2, 12, September, 1960)
In The Broken Sword, Abelard Schuman, 1954
- The Longships
- Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (1)
- The Strike at Trollheim
- Food is Good for Friendship
- Laughter from your Lips
- Fear of Fairest
- Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (2): Prelude to Battle
- Gravemound
- Luckless is the Lad
- Clear the Day Is, Coldly
- Black and Cold, the Breakers
- Late will I the Lovely
- Skafloc Speaks to Bölverk
- Swiftly Goes the Sword-Play (3): Tyrfing Re-Forged
- The Daughters of Ran
- Home Again the Howling
In The Golden Slave (Avon, 1960)
- High Stood Our Helmets
In People of the Wind (Condé Nast, 1973)
- Route Song of the Winged Folk
In The Merman's Children (Berkeley/Putam, 1979)
- Song of Returnings
- Song of Farewells
- Sea Burial
- Route Song of the Greenland Whales
In The Boat of a Million Years (Tor, 1989)
- Starkadh’s Offering
- Autumn
In "The Star of the Sea", novella in The Time Patrol (Tor, 1991)
- Veleda Speaks
In War of the Gods (Tor, 1997)
- Skuli’s Shade’s Warning
- The Elf-Woman’s Curse
In Mother of Kings (Tor, 2001)
- Give to Me Your Silence
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