Paul Deane

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Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.

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Excerpts from Aaron Poochigian's Mr. Either/Or and Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage in the Winter, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse. alliteration.net/poetry/excer... alliteration.net/poetry/excer... pdf: alliteration.net/__static/3b2...

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It appears my collection of alliterative verse, A WHEEL OF RAVENS, was nominated for an Elgin Award... sfpoetry.com/el/elgcand.h... If you don't already have one, I highly recommend you obtain a copy from @jackanapespress.bsky.social www.jackanapespress.com/product/a-wh...

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Looking for alliterative poetry submissions for the Fall, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. The call for submissions is here: alliteration.net/call-for-sub...

Call for Poetry Submissionsalliteration.net The Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net) is open for submissions. I am especially interested in alliterative verse that explores themes of love, devotion, and desire.

An excerpt from Lancelot Schaubert's poem, "Why Alliterative", from the Winter, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse. alliteration.net/poetry/why-a..., pdf: alliteration.net/__static/3b2...

An excerpt from "Alliterative Meter" by Donald T. Williams, alliteration.net/poetry/allit..., in the Spring, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, pdf: alliteration.net/__static/ece...

More progress on my Sir Gawain & the Green Knight translation -- end of deer-butchering scene in Book III alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/

Excerpt from "Flying in Concrete" by Lancelot Schaubert, from the Winter, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, alliteration.net/poetry/flyin..., pdf: alliteration.net/__static/3b2... #NewYorkers

This is one not to miss. An example of what alliterative verse can do for a narrative. alliteration.net/poetry/a-lay... Published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, Spring, 2024, alliteration.net/__static/ece...

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I was worried it was frivolous to spend the last 3 months reading Lord of the Rings but I’m glad I did because it kicked something loose in my brain wrt going on when it seems hopeless.

Excerpt from "Toys", by Tony Mitchell, in the Summer, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, alliteration.net/current-issue/, pdf: alliteration.net/__static/5ff...

"October 14th" by P.D. Brown, from the Summer, 2024 issue of Fogotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse. alliteration.net/current-issue/, pdf: alliteration.net/__static/5ff...

Excerpt from "Cain's Kin (Grendel Alone)" by Brian Wright, from the Summer, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, alliteration.net/current-issue, pdf: alliteration.net/__static/5ff...

Looking for alliterative poetry submissions for the Fall, 2024 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. The call for submissions is here: alliteration.net/call-for-sub...

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Reviewers called Helen Barr's translation of the fourteenth-century alliterative poem, Patience, "crackling," and "zesty." Get your copy today! Patience is now available. broadviewpress.com/product/pati...

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Another alliterative death poem, this time for [spoiler redacted]:

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Just finished a new alliterative poem called ‘The Owlmoot’. I got the idea on Yule Night: I envisioned an enormous oak tree called the Yule Oak where once a year the owls would flock to have a moot on the longest night of the year. (Illustration from THE BOOK OF HOURS of Johanna the Mad, c.1500.)

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Can you do the 1st tale from the Shahnama in alliterative lines? What does your Persian friend & poet sing Of the first worldlord to forge a crown & blazon his own brow? Nobody knows A thing at all of those elder years Unless he's heard a tale the tongues of fathers Have told their sons...

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Danny Bate

It was a great point he made (and you discussed) about kennings being a way to reconcile the constraints of alliterative poetry with the need to talk about the same things a lot :)

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So you know how Welsh and Old English have traditions of alliterative poetry? Well I recently learned that Somali does too.

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Something to listen to over the break? Plenty of #poetry, lots of alliteration, masses of #mythology, much of it mine... This links to a 'sampler' of alliterative verse on audio and video. Good stuff to hear, including my own takes on #Norse mythology. #PaganSky alliteration.net/sampler/av-t...

The Audio-Video Tour of Alliterative Versealliteration.net An index of alliterative verse poems, performed.

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What is the greatest assemblage of alliterative verse ever produced? The EXETER BOOK? Hardly. The CODEX REGIUS? As if… The answer, of course, is SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL, edited by the estimable Dennis Wise

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I am pleased to report my alliterative poem "The Lay of Géac Ettinfell" has been nominated for a Rhysling Award! Many thanks to Dennis Wise for publishing it in his spectacular SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY. www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand....

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It's now official -- SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL is now published! If you have privileges at a university library, please order a copy for your institution! It's available in both North America and the British Commonwealth.

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This is a marvellous thing to be part of. I came to alliterative verse 25+ years ago, wanting to write praisesong & ritual for Old English & Norse polytheistic worship. The energy & drive can be exhilarating. This anthology collects modern poets inspired by the form inc. C.S.Lewis, Auden & me. 🙂

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Andy Lawrence

I've only learned tidbits of the actual languages themselves, but I wrote a novel in the style of ancient Norse epic poetry (one of several forms of medieval alliterative verse). My next book will be in the style of ancient Egyptian verse, have only just begun it though!

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Adam Bolivar's new book of alliterative verse - dark fantasy in the heroic style. With a foreword by Dennis Wilson Wise (a noted authority on Tolkien and epic fantasy), Richly illustrated. @adambolivar.bsky.social www.jackanapespress.com/product/a-wh...

A Wheel of Ravens: Alliterative Verse in the Old English Style (PREORDER)www.jackanapespress.com PREORDER - EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER From Adam Bolivar, balladeer extraordinaire and author of The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill, comes a landmark...

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I don't know if I've talked about my novel at all over here. Skáldsspá is a fantasy-genre epic poem written in the style of ancient Norse alliterative verse. It's a beautiful and very accessible form of poetry, and the adventure is light but reflective. Hopefully someday it will find a publisher :)

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