Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
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
· Oct 25
Current Issue: Fall 2025
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
alliteration.net
Announcing: The Fall, 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, featuring modern English poetry in Norse and Icelandic forms. 17 poems, 3 articles, with loads of info for the curious (& some great poems!)
alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets
alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets
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Drafting, drafting~
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Drafting, drafting~
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The future: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fine-2 #smbc
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The future: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fine-2 #smbc
For @lovehealthed.bsky.social and the #vss365 #prompt for 26 Nov #Reflection
alliteration.net/poetry/makin... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
alliteration.net/poetry/makin... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Making Waves: An Experiment in Alliteration by Patricia Masson
Stillness. / Plop. / Water wakes. / moveless before that moment. ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
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"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want."
Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/u...
Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/u...
Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want."
Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/u...
Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/u...
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The internet is such a wonder of an invention. Do it wrong and you get sent d3ath threat, but do it right and a cowboy will teach you Old Norse poetry for free.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The internet is such a wonder of an invention. Do it wrong and you get sent d3ath threat, but do it right and a cowboy will teach you Old Norse poetry for free.
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The study of Anglo-Saxon had a key role in the early development of English degrees at British universities.
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The study of Anglo-Saxon had a key role in the early development of English degrees at British universities.
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Perhaps you should devote episodes to other weirdos who wrote poems about women! Like Catullus, say ... 😉
alliteration.net/poetry/catul...
alliteration.net/poetry/catul...
Catullus, Poem No. 3, translated into alliterative verse by Brian Bishop
Grieve, o gods, who guard love; / mourn, mortals, men of gentility: / My lovely’s linnet ‧ lies dead ...
alliteration.net
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Perhaps you should devote episodes to other weirdos who wrote poems about women! Like Catullus, say ... 😉
alliteration.net/poetry/catul...
alliteration.net/poetry/catul...
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I’m good at boats and can write alliterative verse I think it’s worth giving the raiding by sea thing another shot.
Trying to decide on a career for when the economy crashes and we return to the ancient times. I'm leaning toward soothsayer but I'm also open to banditry
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’m good at boats and can write alliterative verse I think it’s worth giving the raiding by sea thing another shot.
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The third one, "Merry Dancers", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, dróttkvætt.
alliteration.net/poetry/merry-dancers/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/merry-dancers/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
Merry Dancers, an alliterative poem in Scots by Colin Mackenzie
The Bear’s noust was buskit / bricht, as langships flichtered / skinklin sails in seelent / seas abune the easin ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The third one, "Merry Dancers", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, dróttkvætt.
alliteration.net/poetry/merry-dancers/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/merry-dancers/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
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New translation by Liam Guilar of the Welsh poem, "How Culhwch Won Olwen".
New translation by Liam Guilar of the Welsh poem, "How Culhwch Won Olwen".
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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New translation by Liam Guilar of the Welsh poem, "How Culhwch Won Olwen".
New translation by Liam Guilar of the Welsh poem, "How Culhwch Won Olwen".
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How about roofs in Beowulf?
The arm and shoulder · afterward laid down
By the battle-brave man -- all bloody there together,
Grendel’s riven claw -- under the vaulted roof.
alliteration.net/poetry/grend...
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #OnRoofs
The arm and shoulder · afterward laid down
By the battle-brave man -- all bloody there together,
Grendel’s riven claw -- under the vaulted roof.
alliteration.net/poetry/grend...
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #OnRoofs
Beowulf: Grapping with Grendel -- an alliterative translation
... In the black night it came, / Wandering, the shadow-walker. Warriors slept / Who should have held · the antlered hall-- / All but one...
alliteration.net
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How about roofs in Beowulf?
The arm and shoulder · afterward laid down
By the battle-brave man -- all bloody there together,
Grendel’s riven claw -- under the vaulted roof.
alliteration.net/poetry/grend...
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #OnRoofs
The arm and shoulder · afterward laid down
By the battle-brave man -- all bloody there together,
Grendel’s riven claw -- under the vaulted roof.
alliteration.net/poetry/grend...
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social #promptcombo #OnRoofs
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The current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained also has a sample of galdralag -- Norse spell meter -- in @frankcoffman.bsky.social 's "The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell"
alliteration.net/poetry/the-galdrmadhr-weaves-an-evil-spell/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/the-galdrmadhr-weaves-an-evil-spell/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell, a poem in alliterative verse by Frank Coffman
... my tongue is weapon—both warp and woof / to weave with words my wrath; / fell phrases to unfold ...
alliteration.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained also has a sample of galdralag -- Norse spell meter -- in @frankcoffman.bsky.social 's "The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell"
alliteration.net/poetry/the-galdrmadhr-weaves-an-evil-spell/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/the-galdrmadhr-weaves-an-evil-spell/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The first one, "Mabie Forest", is an example of the Norse form, hagmælt (‘skillfully spoken’).
alliteration.net/poetry/mabie-forest/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/mabie-forest/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
Mabie Forest, a poem in alliterative verse by Colin Mackenzie
Fronds of finely / frosted, glossy / bracken buckle ...
alliteration.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The first one, "Mabie Forest", is an example of the Norse form, hagmælt (‘skillfully spoken’).
alliteration.net/poetry/mabie-forest/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
alliteration.net/poetry/mabie-forest/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
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Every morning I spend a few hours rewriting Bea Wolf 2. Nothing else I do is this mentally/emotionally taxing. There's this advice we give to writers to "never wait for inspiration," but man it is hard to write poetry without inspiration. And then you spend 3 hours to get 1 or 2 good lines.
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Every morning I spend a few hours rewriting Bea Wolf 2. Nothing else I do is this mentally/emotionally taxing. There's this advice we give to writers to "never wait for inspiration," but man it is hard to write poetry without inspiration. And then you spend 3 hours to get 1 or 2 good lines.
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Got my copy of this the other day. Some fun stories in it by promising young writers, and a bit of a tour de force by C.E. Larke -- an alliterative epic. A very promising poem from a young poet, though she indulges in a bit more archaism than I prefer.
Worth a gander, for sure!
Worth a gander, for sure!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Got my copy of this the other day. Some fun stories in it by promising young writers, and a bit of a tour de force by C.E. Larke -- an alliterative epic. A very promising poem from a young poet, though she indulges in a bit more archaism than I prefer.
Worth a gander, for sure!
Worth a gander, for sure!
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Auden's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this sampler page from my site for a tour of alliterative poems by noted authors:
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
Noted Authors: Alliterative Poems by Famous Poets and Writers
Between the mid 19th and early 21st centuries, many prominent poets and writers have written poems in alliterative verse, including Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, and Richard Wilbur.
alliteration.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Auden's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out this sampler page from my site for a tour of alliterative poems by noted authors:
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/samplers/not... #alliterative #poetry #famous #authors #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #alliterativeverse
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If you're looking for more Beowulf resources, check out the links on this page on my alliterative poetry site:
alliteration.net/historical-t... #Beowulf #alliterative #epic #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/historical-t... #Beowulf #alliterative #epic #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
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.
alliteration.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you're looking for more Beowulf resources, check out the links on this page on my alliterative poetry site:
alliteration.net/historical-t... #Beowulf #alliterative #epic #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/historical-t... #Beowulf #alliterative #epic #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
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Life
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/life-8 (click through for bonus panel and because by god it's the right thing to do)
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/life-8 (click through for bonus panel and because by god it's the right thing to do)
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Life
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/life-8 (click through for bonus panel and because by god it's the right thing to do)
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/life-8 (click through for bonus panel and because by god it's the right thing to do)
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For tonight's Spell in the Library you catch up with me in a beautiful library in Romania!
youtu.be/plV-4dvvFOY
youtu.be/plV-4dvvFOY
Reading in Romania!
YouTube video by Malcolm Guite
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For tonight's Spell in the Library you catch up with me in a beautiful library in Romania!
youtu.be/plV-4dvvFOY
youtu.be/plV-4dvvFOY
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Forgotten Ground Regained's first Pushcart nomination for 2025: @stevensearcy.bsky.social's poem "Emblem":
alliteration.net/poetry/emblem/ #alliterative #poetry #Pushcart #prize #nomination #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/emblem/ #alliterative #poetry #Pushcart #prize #nomination #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #alliterativeverse
Emblem by Steven Searcy
The evening sky is emblazoned / with authority, with blatant / mastery. A breeze blows ...
alliteration.net
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Forgotten Ground Regained's first Pushcart nomination for 2025: @stevensearcy.bsky.social's poem "Emblem":
alliteration.net/poetry/emblem/ #alliterative #poetry #Pushcart #prize #nomination #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/emblem/ #alliterative #poetry #Pushcart #prize #nomination #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky #alliterativeverse
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Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The second one, "House Martins", is an example of the Norse form, Haðarlag (‘Hǫðr’s metre’)
alliteration.net/poetry/house-martins/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem
alliteration.net/poetry/house-martins/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem
House Martins, a poem in alliterative verse by Colin Mackenzie
Master silt-masons / mortar pond-quarried / blocks of beak-stucco, / building egg-villas
alliteration.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The second one, "House Martins", is an example of the Norse form, Haðarlag (‘Hǫðr’s metre’)
alliteration.net/poetry/house-martins/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem
alliteration.net/poetry/house-martins/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem