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Call for Submissions
Forgotten Ground Regained (alliteration.net) is open to submissions for its Winter issue (on the theme "Images of the Natural World." See the call of submissions for details: https://alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/

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Trying some stuff out. One of the things I'm trying out is letting more Greek / Latin / French loanwords in.
[extremely has been reading Maxims I voice]: I have been reading Maxims I.
One goal here: try to use this character's maxims to prod at what is normal to them and (rightly!) not normal to us.
Think it's going to take some tuning.
Experimenting with making the alliteration right-tilting rather than (as in Old English) left-tilting.

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The Mountain, After released!
The Mountain, After has just come out! It’s a short story, set when power ebbs away from one petty imperial outpost. It features:
Giant robots
Workable blank verse and alliterative verse
A vivid (I hope!) slice of a vanished world
I’m pretty pleased with it!
You can read The Mountain, After for free (or pay-what-you-want), as a PDF and an ebook, via itch.io here. To pay nothing, hit ‘Download’ and then ‘No thanks’ on the payment box.
Alternatively, you can hear The Mountain, After read aloud on this Twitch VOD. This is a live reading, not an audiobook, but I hope it makes the poem more accessible.
Next week, look out for the release of Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal!
Image: James M. Hart, public domain.
[extremely has been reading Maxims I voice]: I have been reading Maxims I.
One goal here: try to use this character's maxims to prod at what is normal to them and (rightly!) not normal to us.
Think it's going to take some tuning.
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 10, Spring 2026
Tomorrow is the birthday of Carter Revard, Osage Indian, poet, and scholar of Old English. You can read some of his alliterative poetry here:
alliteration.net/poets/revard/
Today is Tolkien Reading Day. If you like Tolkien's alliterative poetry, here's your reading guide ...
http://alliteration.net/poets/jrrtolkien/

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Poetry journal released
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 #norsemythology
The Fall, 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, devoted to Norse and Icelandic forms in modern English poetry, releases October 25th.
It features poems by Peter G. Epps, D.A. Cooper, Jordan River, Liz Kendall, Joshua Walker, Frank Coffman, Colin Mackenzie, Michael Helsem, Math Jones, & Marcus Lindenberg, and articles by Rahul Gupta, myself, & Robert Rickard.
Alliterative Poetry at Oxonmoot
I've just learned my proposal "Alliterative Verse in Arda" has been approved for Oxonmoot 2025! It will feature an overview of alliterative verse (and Tolkien's role in its revival), plus a chance for fans to share their Tolkien alliterative verse fan poems.
Check out the schedule for Oxonmoot 2025
My #alliterative #poem "The Song of David and Abishag" just went live on The Brazen Head. Two vulnerabilities meet; power asymmetries echo across the centuries. #poetry poetrycommunity #biblical #verse #Christian #alliterativeverse
The Winter, 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse releases Thursday, Jan. 9th. It features 27 poems by 16 poets, two articles, and reviews of J.R.R. Tolkien's Collected Poems, Aaron Poochigian's Mr. Either/Or: All The Rage, & Mary Thaler's Ulfhildr.

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More from my ongoing online translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This is from the third part, where Sir Bertilak is hunting a wild boar. Meanwhile, in the castle, his lady stalks Sir Gawain ...
If you've ever read Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, you have read an alliterative poem. These poems are not the light love poems that often come to mind when we think of English poetry but capture what Tolkien called the Northern imagination: sometimes bitter, sometimes harsh, steeped in courage, calling to mind an austere beauty.
This month, as part of our Themed Collection series, Paul D. Deane has assembled a collection of alliterative poems about Tolkien's world. Paul is the editor of Forgotten Ground Regained, the definitive source of Modern English alliterative poetry online, which publishes a quarterly journal of alliterative verse. Alliterative verse, which is the traditional format of many early Germanic poetic traditions, was beloved by Tolkien, who centered his scholarly and creative efforts upon it. Today, his fans continue working in this ancient form as they craft poems about the legendarium. Paul was kind enough to select ten legendarium-inspired poems to introduce readers to alliterative verse based on Tolkien. As always, we want to hear your favorites as a comment on the collection.
You can check out Paul's collection, "Alliterative Verse for Arda," here.