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Dennis Wise @denniswise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ridiculous levels of scholarly sleuthing, I’ve now pinpointed the EXACT real-life identity of Corby. And he’s still alive. So wish me luck as I try contacting him …. stratofanatic.substack.com/p/the-myster...

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The Mysterious Case of Adam Corby

Or, Two Great 1980s Fantasy Editors at Work

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#poemsky, #rumramruf "pumpkinification" the big steal · in plain sight locked inside · the car alarm roller coaster · & stooges' eye-gouge

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fresh kudos on the ao3 version of A Cherry Blossom Crown. That's nice! I don't expect people to read that copy at all. A crown of sonnets is not a sellable fanfic proposition.

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A Cherry Blossom Crown by thaliarchus

High-effort low-wordcount Yukari/Yuyuko fanfic.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sir Gawain confronts the Green Knight at the Green Chapel. I've just completed stanza #89 out of 101 of my ongoing translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! Full translation-to-date at alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ #alliterative #poetry #epic #poem #alliterativeverse #SirGawain #GreenKnight

Then the knight announced himself with noise of his own:
“Who holds power in this place and is prepared to meet me?
Here is Gawain the Good! You’ve got him right here.
If anyone wants anything, let him answer quickly
and make his needs known. It is now or never!”
“So, wait!” someone said from somewhere above him,
“and you shall have in a hurry what I’m here to give you.”
Yet he got on with his grinding for a good while longer,
working on his whetting before he went down.
Then he came off the crag where a crevice opened,
and whirled round the wall. His weapon was deadly,
a Danish axe (never dull) to deal out the blow,
with a big blade that bent round the haft –
finished with a file, and more than four feet high.
It loomed even larger against the lace’s brilliance.
The Green Knight and his gear were as green as ever
from his head to his heels, plus his hair and beard.
But he came forth with both feet set firmly on earth,
striking steel to stone as he stalked forward.
When his way reached the water, he didn’t wade across,
but vaulted over on his axe and eagerly strode,
brutal and bloodthirsty, across a broad field covered
with snow.
Sir Gawain bowed in greeting,
but not particularly low.
The other said, “Our meeting
here proves what I wanted to know.”

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Naush Sabah @naush.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A great read on Anne Carson, by the always excellent @ravoon.bsky.social. Reading Graeme is basically how I try to stay educated. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Anne Carson, a poet of ‘palpable genius’ and winner of the Nobel prize

The Canadian writer has reinvented ancient literature in her playful and bold works

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Adam Bolivar @adambolivar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The scop recites alliterative verse with a lyre at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. (Photo courtesy Jesse Kaszniak.)

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My poem “Transference” appears in Star*Line 49.4 (Fall 2026)! @sfpoetry.bsky.social sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👂 What did medieval poetry sound like? Did it sound like the English we use today? Dr @carlkears.bsky.social from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reads Caedmon's Hymn in Old English for the @poemsonthetube.bsky.social website 👇 poemsontheunderground.org/poem-of-the-...

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#TimeTravelAuthors Day5 The historical sections are set in the Dark Ages just before AD536, possibly the worst year to be alive in human history. So only everyday lives. There is an entire Old English Epic Poem written about the Character Donovan, from before he shows up in the C21st.

A poster showing the activities for the time travel authors game
October 5: Does anyone see any important and/or historical events?

text A book. The cover shows a silhouetted figure walking over a rain-washed, cobble street. Behind the figure is a winged serpent set in an intaglio such as you might find in a signet ring.
Text reads: Her Borrowed Grave 8th October 2026

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the narrative, the scribe (also called William) references Humphrey de Bohun twice as the patron of the work and mentions the tomb of Edward II at Gloucester. The decision to transcribe into alliterative verse is strongly suggestive of an audience demand for such poetry…

A copy of The Romance of William and the Werewolf translated by Michael Smith. Two greetings cards are also partially seen.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained will be on the theme "Speculative Visions", i.e. science fiction/horror/fantasy Here's a fun bit of horror I recently published by Michael Helsem alliteration.net/poetry/cthul... #horror #horrorjunkie #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poem

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Cthulhu Eldritch Horror Final Form -- An Alliterative Poem by Michael Helsem

... with a wing-brought brightness: / brush of her cheek, shrieking.

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was #NationalPoetryDay this week so we couldn't resist sharing our Fellow Prof. Richard Dance (1997) reading the opening lines of 'Beowulf', in both Modern & Old English. Catz students at @department-asnc.bsky.social enjoy studying this epic poem >1000 years after it was first written.

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Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week: Caedmon's Hymn translated by Paul Muldoon poemsontheunderground.org/caedmons-hymn

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Caedmon’s Hymn

Visit the post for more.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The next issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is going to be on the theme "Speculative Visions", i.e. poems that can be classified as science fiction, horror, or fantasy Here's a fun bit of horror I recently reprinted: J.Y.T. Kennedy's "The King in Red" alliteration.net/poetry/the-k... #horror #poem

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The King in Red

On a desolate street, the gindy neon sketched a lady lewd with lighted tits rudely blinking ...

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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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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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