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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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 9d
I'm currently reading submissoins for the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. In the meantime,enjoy the current issue!

alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoets #poetsOnBlueSky #submissionscall #alliterativeverse
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
New Series 2, Summer, 2025: Protests, Prophetic Voices, and Poetic Battles
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 10h
"Invitation" from my thirty-poem sequence "Alice’s Adventures through the Wonderground".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #alice #lewiscarroll
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 9h
Squint and you may see the answer to this Old English style riddle by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social.

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His arms primed: An Anglo-Saxon style riddle by Cassidy McFadzean
... Statue-still, he skulks in silence, / his arms primed ‧ for approaching steps ...
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 12h
And nobody thought to ask what Grendel & mum did for a living ...
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Heorot, the Early Days: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine
... Laurence Longlocks ‧ launched into revamp: / The hearth was heaved, hurled on the midden, replaced by a piece ‧ of post-modern /Scandinavian ‧ sculpture in steel ...
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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 13h
You can get a regular magazine all about J.R.R. #Tolkien!

Join the Tolkien Society and get our magazine Amon Hen delivered to your letterbox, or your inbox, every 2 months! Digital and postal memberships are available - and we ship worldwide. Join at www.tolkiensociety.org/join #BookSky
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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13h
"A thousand twangling instruments..."
This one sings dark and deep.
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Book cover of This Wilderness & Other Concerns by Martin Kennedy Yates, published by The Broken Spine. The cover artwork depicts an urban canal or waterway running between old brick and industrial buildings, with graffiti on one wall and a dark, moody atmosphere. A quote from writer and poet Jonathan Davidson reads: “These poems are a pleasure both to encounter and to read.”
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14h
Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 15h
Another timeline cleanse ...

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Grondeswigyle (Groundsel): A Poem in Alliterative Verse
... Though golden my crowns ‧ no king am I. / Common my race ‧ crowding like men / Unloved by them ‧ we live by risk ...
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Dennis Wise @denniswise.bsky.social · 15h
Just saw that this came out! Holmes has always written *extremely* insightful reviews and articles. I'll be looking forward to this one .... although mainly to see what he says about Tolkien's alliterative poetry!

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Tolkien’s Glee - McFarland
Tolkien’s Glee A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings John R. Holmes 978-1-4766-9865-6 978-1-4766-5735-6
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 11d
If you want to know more about Pat Masson, you can check her out here:

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Patricia Masson: Alliterative Poet
Pat Masson (1940-1994) was a British poet and author. She was active in the Tolkien Society and won the Cædmon Prize for her poem Dragon-Fighter, awarded by
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 5d
Mind you, an easy-to-read modern translation also has its good points! I've got one ongoing at alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/ ... currently starting on my translation of Book IV.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Translating the Middle English poem into modern alliterative verse.
This ongoing translation by Paul D. Deane takes the classic Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous Pearl Poet and sets it in modern alliterative verse.
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 4d
Free info here, including some online translations. Tim Romano's in particular is pretty good. If you want a published translation, I list seven on the second page link below. I'd recommend Douglas Wilson's.

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Beowulf: Resources for Understanding the Great Alliterative Poem
A Beowful compendium, including translations of key passages, plus links to the old English text, four online translations, a modern English performance of the whole poem, and other resources.
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
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Why Meter Is Not Essential to Poetry
Contra Robert Charboneau
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
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Why I Never Submit to Literary Magazines
"There was a little moment of fear. Was I making excuses? Was I afraid that I wasn’t actually good enough? Was I simply scared of rejection?"
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
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Anglo-Saxon Rhythms
The modern revival of the oldest English verse-style
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
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The ancient art of beating about the bush
Why you should care about kennings
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 2d
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RIP Tony Harrison – a piece on metre and voice in his poetry
With the sad news of the passing of Tony Harrison, who as a working class poet had a great impact on me during my formative years of writing in the 1980s, I went back to a piece I was commissioned …
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 15h
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From the archive: Alfred, Lord Tennyson – the most Victorian laureate
March 1969: One great poet on another – Larkin on Tennyson
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 15h
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#Tolkien #LOTR #Hobbit
Tolkien’s Glee - McFarland
Tolkien’s Glee A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings John R. Holmes 978-1-4766-9865-6 978-1-4766-5735-6
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 16h
I've just posted the call for submissions for the Winter, 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. Soon I'll finish sending out notices of acceptance and rejection. Expect the Fall issue to be released before Halloween. :)
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Call for Submissions: Psalms and Meditations
Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by January 1
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 18h
"I've just come from Timbuctoo on my horse, Rumpelstiltskin."

"Your horse is called Rumpelstiltskin??"

"That's right. I've been through the desert on a horse with gnome-name."
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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · 17h
More sonnets following on from yesterday's injudicious reading of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" all in one go: www.patreon.com/posts/140992... and yet more sonnets www.patreon.com/posts/141001... and there's another one coming tonight
Stuck in Sonnet Form | Jo Walton
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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · 17h
Poem about Castelrigg that's almost thirty years old, which is nothing to the age of the stones www.jowaltonbooks.com/poetry/place...
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d
And I did several Psalm paraphrases in nonce alliterative forms, like this one, which is split-alliteration hexameter:

alliteration.net/poetry/psalm/
A Cry to Heaven (after Psalm 6)
At least a wall might crack, crumble, weaken, fall, / tumble, overturned by roots, rain, wind, and weather ...
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d
Well, it's my poem, and my form. :)

I did a lot of experimenting with alliterative forms in the late 1990s. You might enjoy reading some of the Tolkien fan-fiction poems I wrote in split-alliterative lines with a short bob-and-wheel, like this one:

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The Song of Shadows: An Alliterative Fanfic Epic Set in the East of Middle Earth
... Their bright brands glanced on a gleaming coronet / Which flashed in the flame like a subterranean star: / And its rose-red ruby like a captive king / Lay enfolded in flowers of molded mithril ...
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 1d
And I did several Psalm paraphrases in nonce alliterative forms, like this one, which is split-alliteration hexameter:

alliteration.net/poetry/psalm/
A Cry to Heaven (after Psalm 6)
At least a wall might crack, crumble, weaken, fall, / tumble, overturned by roots, rain, wind, and weather ...
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