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Adam Bolivar @adambolivar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll be reading my latest alliterative poems at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon in Portland! My reading will be at the Hollywood Library, Saturday, 5 p.m. I'll be sharing a block with the redoubtable Garrett Cook. Come one! Come all! hplfilmfestival.com/hplfilmfesti...

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Author Reading: Garret Cook, Adam Bolivar

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And al watʒ holʒ inwith, nobot an olde caue Or a crevisse of an olde cragge… The dark and forbidding entrance to the cave at Wetton Mill, Dovedale, Derbyshire - a potential candidate for the Green Chapel in the medieval masterpiece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. #AdoorableThursday #SGGK

Entrance to a cave in a limestone cliff showing vegetation hanging down from the top with grass and bushes surrounding the entrance.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained will be on the theme "Speculative Visions", i.e., poems that can be classified as science fiction, horror, or fantasy. This gruesome little 16th century poem--one of the last poems of the native tradition--is pure horror. alliteration.net/poetry/horri...

... and you thought horror was a modern invention ... "Horrible of Hue" (16th century), imposed over a leering zombie face.

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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you like this 2025 poem, where a far-future revolutionary workers’ state uses alliterative poetry as a vehicle for political discourse, wait till the next all-speculative issue of Forgotten Ground Regained! I have two poems in it, along with a lot of other terrific alliterative poetry!

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is going to be on the theme "Speculative Visions" -- i.e., poems that qualify as Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror While you're waiting for it, here's an SF poem I recently published: alliteration.net/poetry/knot-... #alliterative #scifi #poetry #poem

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Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant

SF Poem in alliterative verse by Michael Hessel-Mial, attributed to "Cultivated Fortune, ca. 4,000,000 hours past"

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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late to the party this time. I’m reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith. I’m about ½ way through. I can’t wait to see how it ends. (a joke. I’ve read it many, many, and still more many times.)

A striking woodcut style of Sir Gawain on his horse.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant

SF Poem in alliterative verse by Michael Hessel-Mial, attributed to "Cultivated Fortune, ca. 4,000,000 hours past"

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeats at his best did this, before he got weird

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I mean in particular Kipling's ability to use sound and plain language but be extremely evocative. See another from this one:

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is going to be on the theme "Speculative Visions" -- i.e., poems that qualify as Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. While you're waiting, here's a poem I recently reprinted. alliteration.net/poetry/space... #alliterative #scifi #speculative #poetry

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Spacepoem 3: Off Course, a poem in alliterative verse by Edwiun Morgan

A science fiction poem by Scotland's first Poet Laureate

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So I'm working on putting together the next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, on "Speculative Visions". In the meantime, enjoy the Summer issue, focusing on poems set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you taught a course on the sagas and eddas (in translation)? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? 2027 is going to be the year I make good on my promise to take a group of students out to a small island in the middle of the North Atlantic and make them read Viking poetry

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Spacepoem 3: Off Course, a poem in alliterative verse by Edwiun Morgan

A science fiction poem by Scotland's first Poet Laureate

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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m going to write something longer about invented poetry forms, but this meter I’m working with has me thinking: it’s not just about finding the natural cadence within the form, but letting the form reshape your language too

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So I'm working on putting together the next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, on "Speculative Visions". In the meantime, enjoy the Summer issue, focusing on poems set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026

I mean the whole reason the Heliand was written was to convey the story of the gospels in terms familiar to Germanic tribespeople, which is how you get the Apostles being called thanes in the war-band of the great chieftain Christ.

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Heliand - Wikipedia

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The trees tower, telling the world the strength of love, straight and true... Forgotten Ground Regained is proud to nominate Steven Searcy's poem "Tree-Hymn" for Orison Book's Best Spiritual Literature competition alliteration.net/poetry/tree-... #alliterative #poetry #spirituality #poetrylovers

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Tree-Hymn, a poem in alliterative verse by Steven Searcy

The trees tower, telling the world / the strength of love, straight and true. / Widening slowly ...

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think more people should try reading DSTM, which is available for free.

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Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal by thaliarchus

Hell, hope, and harping.

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Adam Bolivar @adambolivar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Portlanders! On the sacred night of Halloween, a never-before seen spectacle will take place: a PUPPET EDDA, the world’s first alliterative-verse marionette show, preceded by spooky poetry readings from legendary author John Shirley and myself. At the Rose City Book Pub, Portland on Oct. 31st, 8 pm.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lev Grossman, the wrytere of *The Magicians* and *The Bright Sword,* on traunslatinge *Sir Gawain and the Green Knighte*

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Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

At Interstellar Flight Mag, Paul Douglas Deane introduces to the epics of alliterative verse and the speculative. "However archaic alliterative verse may seem, it has found a home in speculative fiction, where it has been put to many uses." magazine.interstella...

Beowulf map background text reads: An Introduction to Alliterative Verse for Readers and Writers of Speculative Fiction...However archaic alliterative verse may seem, it has found a home in speculative fiction, where it has been put to many uses.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It was all going so swimmingly until the poetry workshop leader suggested alliterative verse was dead.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I cannot recommend this book highly enough- CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, ed Sinykin & Winant. It’s inspiring me for the term ahead! Eng Lit tutors, what are your favourite ways of teaching close reading in a university context?

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century book, ed Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That's actually because I revised the Wikipedia article a few years ago to bring it properly up to date. If you want to see more alliterative verse, check out alliteration.net...it includes pages for different communities (scholars, poets, speculative fiction fans, SCA members, Christians & Pagans)

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Alliterative Verse: Original English Alliterative Poems & Poetry Resources

Alliterative verse can be defined as poetry that uses alliteration -- repeating sounds at the start of a syllable -- to link the parts of a line. The site includes poems, articles & links to resources

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🏴ᛏ Sigrún, hræfnes cwen ᚩ🏴 @empress-trixana.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

unironically the wikipedia article is exceptionally solid and covers the ground for the entire tradition from the earliest examples to modern works like that of Tolkien en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliter...

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Alliterative verse - Wikipedia

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pat Masson's "A Lay of St. Boniface" alliteration.net/poetry/a-lay-of-st-boniface/ A sacred tree comes down. From the point of view of the person about to be sacrificed to it.

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A Lay of St. Boniface: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Patricia Masson

Now we stood stone-still, and in stark horror / gazed into that gap ‧ where our god had been steadfast / since middle-earth’s making,

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm happy to note that my poem "Two Verdicts" has been accepted by Dark Winter Lit.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Forgotten Ground Regained is pleased to announce the nomination of John C. Mannone's poem "Not Only Rainbows" for Orison Book's Best Spiritual Literature competition alliteration.net/poetry/not-o... #alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #spiritual #literature #nomination #poetrysky #poetrylovers

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Not Only Rainbows, a poem in alliterative poem by John C. Mannone

... It was true for Noah’s wooden ark when dark clouds / broke and billowed seas with rain and wind ...

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...The baleful wolf · will be our bane, our learning wasted, our wisdom vain. We can’t avoid · or evade our ends. Forgotten Ground Regained is proud to nominate D.A. Cooper's "On Odin's Journey" to Orison Press's Best Spiritual Literature competition. alliteration.net/poetry/on-od... #Odin #poem

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On Odin’s Journey, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper

With an opening line, it all begins: / We’re formed when fire · and frost collide / deep inside · the soundless abyss ...

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LEV GROSSMAN'S MEDIEVAL PROJECT Brittened and Brent: I Am Accidentally Translating “Gawain and the Green Knight” I know I shouldn’t be doing this But since I am I’m not going to pretend I’m not enjoying it levgrossman.substack.com/p/brittened-... #LevGrossman #SirGawain #GreenKnight #GraphicNovel

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Brittened and Brent: I Am Accidentally Translating “Gawain and the Green Knight”

I know I shouldn’t be doing this. But since I am I’m not going to pretend I’m not enjoying it

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Tree-Hymn, a poem in alliterative verse by Steven Searcy

The trees tower, telling the world / the strength of love, straight and true. / Widening slowly ...

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University of Exeter Press @uexeterpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now in paperback! Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text edited by Eric Weiskott 📖 Learn more and order your copy ➡️ tinyurl.com/2f3drfdh #williamlangland #piersplowman #alliterativeverse #dreamvision

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have you lost sleep wondering about Old English influence in Old Norse poetry? Babe, I got you. New open access article just dropped: benjamins.com/catalog/sigl...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Brittened and Brent: I Am Accidentally Translating “Gawain and the Green Knight”

I know I shouldn’t be doing this. But since I am I’m not going to pretend I’m not enjoying it

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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On Odin’s Journey, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper

With an opening line, it all begins: / We’re formed when fire · and frost collide / deep inside · the soundless abyss ...

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For over ten years, I've been running an experimental poetry press called Penteract Press. Penteract exists to give a platform to constrained, experimentally formal, and visual poets. [1/4]

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Store — Penteract Press

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From spare moments on a train: Youmu resisting Roukanken's eldritch power by not thinking. In two halves, each using a form that itself comes in two halves.

Youmu art from Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

I sometimes catch a whisper from my sword,
or so I think. It urges me toward
a mind more honed, a life more disciplined.
Or so I think. I never have quite pinned
the muffled words it speaks. Just noise I hear.
But that it cheers me on is surely clear.
No heirloom from my absent grandpapa
would ever wish for harm. And when I spar
with Lady Yuyuko, I tell her so.
She says she’s glad that this is what I know.

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Sword lies not silent,
but says hazy
words left wavy.
It must be warm comfort—
a grave gracious
to grateful soul—
or so my lady
seemed swift to suggest
when I went for advice
on the words mazy.

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the highlights of the recent edition. Go read it!

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Forgotten Ground Regained is pleased to announce the nomination of Jane Beal's "Bright Waves from the Wide Caribbean Sea" to Orison Press's "Best Spiritual Literature" competition. alliteration.net/poetry/brigh... #alliterative #poetry #alliterative #poem #alliterativeverse #nomination #poetrysky

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Bright waves from the wide Caribbean Sea, a free verse alliterative poem by Jane Beal

Bright waves from the wide Caribbean Sea / rush onto the sand under the shining sun ...

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The great uncalled witness to wrongful witch trials; old Pendle hill looms large in the landscape. #Lancashire

View of a landscape showing hedges and fields in the foreground with a vast looming flat-topped hill in the distance standing darkly against a cloudy sky.

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