Contributor: Rahul Gupta

Rahul Gupta earned his Ph.D. in alliterative poetrics from the University of York. He has published poems, prose, and translations in Agenda, Long Poem Magazine, many other journals, and anthologies including Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2023), alongside C. S. Lewis and Auden.
His main work, an Arthuriad in Old Englsh and Norse Meters, has been praised as ‘the most accomplished, imaginative and technically-correct alliterative verse in Modern English since Tolkien’ (Tom Shippey) and has beem described by John Matthews in The Temenos Academy Review, Issue 21, 2018, as "one of the truly great mythic works of our time", “expanding the Arthurian myth further than anyone since Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory. A prose Synopsis was first published in The Tenemos Academy Review, alongside Matthew's commentary.
Poems Published on this Site
The following poems and excerpts from Rahul Gupta's work are published on this site:
In Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Inaugural issue, Fall, 2023
In Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 4, Fall, 2024
  • Spawn of the Lightning -- Excerpt from The Arthuriad, Part II, Interlude -- Autumn (overlaps significantly with "An Army of Halloween Toadstools", below.
Stand-Alone Publication to the website, Spring, 2025
In Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 6, Spring, 2025
  • Grim Goes Fishing: from A New Lay of Havelok the Dane (First published in Lincoln Folk Tales Reimagined, edited by Anna Milon and Rory Waterman. Five Leaves Press, Nottingham, UK, 2024).
Translations
He has done a number of alliterative translations, including:
Beowulf
Other Old English Poems
The Poetic Edda
Middle English
Niebelungenlied
Other Poems
Additional excerpts from The Arthuriad appear in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse:
Additional published excerpts from the Arthuriad include:
Many of the items listed above are earlier versions published in revised form on Forgotten Ground Regained.
Some of his other original alliterative poems include:
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