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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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 5d
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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Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 1h
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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 15h
A view towards The Bongs, from Crosfield Bridge above Lymm Dam, Cheshire. Bongs is thought to be a corruption of the Middle English “bonks” (slopes or hill/valley sides; possibly wooded), a word which appears in a number of northern Middle English texts including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Trees in narrow river valley viewed from a bridge.
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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 7h
We almost lost the Middle-English Poem Beowulf to fire!

Buried in the private Cotton library, the only copy of Beowulf was never truly studied.

Then in 1731, a fire destroyed Ashburnham House & most of the library. In a desperate attempt to save the codex a heroic librarian flung the smoking ⬇️
A badly burned manuscript page of the poem Beowulf. Ashburnham House, the building where the private Cotton Library was kept containing the only copy of Beowulf. It burned in 1731. Most of the books went up in flames, but a few were saved.
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 7m
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 · 8h
Enjoy!
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 19h
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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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 2d
I love the title ‘She Speaks’- very much in line with my poetic adaptation of Beowulf, the women tell their side of the story!
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Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social · 2d
Today I’m recommending 2 beautiful #NonFiction titles for #MG readers, both written by #HonorCargillMartin
#SheSpeaks… is published by @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social & #ShakespearesHeroines is published by @hachettechildrens.bsky.social
#UkKidLit

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Fabulous Non-Fiction from Honor Cargill-Martin: Shakespeare’s Heroines and She Speaks: The Women of Norse Myths in their own Words
Cover art by Pauliina Hannuniemi, published by Magic Cat Publishing, 25 September 2025, ISBN:978-1917044813 Cover art by Jaimee Andrews, published by Hachette Children’s Books, 23 October 202…
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d
For #TolkienTrewsday (aka #TolkienTuesday), a video about Tolkien having a bit of a rant over a single kenning in Beowulf, that's probably been subtly mistranslated for years.

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Tolkien's Problem with Beowulf Translations
YouTube video by Graham Scheper
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Rosemary Kirstein @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social · 21h
This book is so brilliant! Plus, when I wanted to write a poem in the style of Beowulf, and exhausted myself by all the intense scrutinizing and analysis involved, I took refreshing breaks by reading this, laughing with delight, and applauding in admiration!
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d
Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
Bea Wolf
Bea Wolf [Weinersmith, Zach, Boulet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bea Wolf
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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 1d
CLASP (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry) has, among other things, a full scansion of Beowulf!

clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/db-latest/po...
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 19h
There are a several RPGs that use alliterative verse in their lore, including Elden Ring. I list them with fanfic on this information page I maintain about the use of alliterative verse in speculative fiction & related things like fanfic and games ...

alliteration.net/community/speculative-fiction/
The Speculative Fiction Community
One of the main ways alliterative verse has spead is through the science fiction and fantasy community. The links on this page provide a panoramic view of the creativity thus unleashed.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d
Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...
Bea Wolf
Bea Wolf [Weinersmith, Zach, Boulet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bea Wolf
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 1d
For #TolkienTuesday: the second part (out of three) of my essay on childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium, this time focusing on Túrin Turambar and the tragic hero’s childhood.

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Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (2): Túrin Turambar's childhood
This is the second part of a longer piece on constructions of childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium.
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Steve Goble, author @curious-blue-dot.bsky.social · 3d
My kid got me a new Beowulf edition for my birthday! Contains a prose translation and a poetic translation. I have a great kid! 💙📚 #booksky
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Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social · 3d
How exciting to get a #BestOfTheNet nomination for my essay exploring the creation of my 'Scousenlish' poems & their relationship to the alliterative form of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - follow link for more - alliteration.net/poets/martin...
Thank you @rhunedhel.bsky.social for the love 🥰
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 4d
The Ruined City:An Alliterative Verse Translation of the Old English Poem share.google/Dh6bwJnjFbxU...
The Ruined City:An Alliterative Verse Translation of the Old English Poem
This alliterative poem translates the Old English poem
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 3d
This was such a wonderful day! Enormously grateful to @cathamclarke.bsky.social for chairing the discussion & poetry reading with the astonishingly brilliant Caroline Bergvall 🤩 (Such a thrill to share a platform with her!) And I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop session with Catherine too! ✨
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 4d
I hugely enjoyed hosting a discussion with the brilliant @drlauravarnam.bsky.social & Caroline Bergvall today on creative engagement with #Chaucer and #medieval literature, including readings from their #poetry. Thank you @ies-sas.bsky.social & @englishassociation.bsky.social for an excellent day!
Me, Laura and Caroline
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
For the record, I don't use facebook other than for business, because they are powerful rent-seekers who have total network domination. If every user left facebook tomorrow, nobody would be happier than me.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d
ironically this wasted even more time, but by GOD it felt nice
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder if you could start a village by telling a thousand influencers to go to an uninhabited Orkney island? futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations
Hallucinating AI platforms are spitting out nonexistent landmarks and it's putting tourists in dangerous situations.
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Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social · 3d
How exciting to get a #BestOfTheNet nomination for my essay exploring the creation of my 'Scousenlish' poems & their relationship to the alliterative form of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - follow link...
alliteration.net/poets/martin...
Thank you @rhunedhel.bsky.social for the love 🥰
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Martin Kennedy Yates: Alliterative Poet
Martin Kennedy Yates is an emerging poet who has had work in recent editions of The Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Butcher’s Dog, Anthropocene, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Storms, and Finished Creatures.
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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 3d
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The Ruined City:An Alliterative Verse Translation of the Old English Poem share.google/Dh6bwJnjFbxU...
The Ruined City:An Alliterative Verse Translation of the Old English Poem
This alliterative poem translates the Old English poem
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Fiction Fans Podcast @fictionfanspod.bsky.social · 4d
This is delightful news to wake up to this morning, I’ve absolutely adored the first two books in the trilogy

(You can find our discussions of them on the podcast here: www.fictionfanspodcast.com/blog/tags/c-...)
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 4d
When the goal is just to destroy everything...

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Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’
A crusade is growing against Wikipedia, which says it is intent on keeping a neutral point of view.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 4d
‘Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it were being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again.’
— C. S. Lewis
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
C. S. Lewis writing in notebook
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