Forgotten Ground Regained
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Thaliarchus
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@thaliarchus on X (formerly Twitter)
Thaliarchus is the pen name of a British scholar of Middle English. His major poetic project is a mecha space opera/epic poem, Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, published on the gaming site, itch.io. It is primarily in blank verse, but characters from one of the cultures in conflict in his epic sometimes speak in alliterative verse [it forms their highest register]. He has also written three other poems set in the same universe, which also use alliterative verse for high-register dialogue: Spearhand Faring, Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal, and The Mountain, After, also published on itch.io. He also posts occasional experiments in alliterative verse to his cohost site, including Finnsburh Reimagined, Homeward runs heart-path, Daringly, daffodils, A career on the rock tips, From a bus with a bow wave, and Roof-tiles under rain-cloud, among others.
He has published the following poems in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse):
- Christmas Walk (an experiment in alliterative metrics inspired by the rhythmic patterns of the Middle English bob-and-wheel), in Issue 1
- Farewell, in Issue 4
He also posts occasional pieces in alliterative verse on social media, including:
- 'Billionaire baldmost ... '
- 'A wit healthy | would fly ware and cowed ..'
- 'Every flower upflowing ...'
- 'The frost-haired among that fire-trained host ...'
- 'Then his journey, I judge ...'
- 'Hard-seeking homes ...'
- 'A nerve awry | knocks him earthward .. '
- 'Now slip slice-path through slam-siege again ...'
- 'And do gaunt lost ones …'
- 'Grin, on your gradcams …'
- 'Meet a new maker …', blank verse in Old English Sieversian rhythms.
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