Rhunedhel5h ago

Today 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/

#alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterative #osage #native #indigenous #poet #alliterativeverse #oldenglish

Rhunedhel6h ago

Today is Tolkien Reading Day. If you like Tolkien's alliterative poetry, here's your reading guide ...

http://alliteration.net/poets/jrrtolkien/

#tolkien #jrrtolkien #reading #day #alliterative #medieval #poetry #alliterativeverse #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #fantasy #lotr #silmarillion

RhunedhelOct 17

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.

#alliteration #alliterativeverse #Viking #poetry #Norse #poems #mythology

VirginicusSep 22, 2025
Dennis Wise’s anthology of #AlliterativeVerse is out in paperback. Cheap! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/speculative-poetry-and-the-modern-alliterative-revival-9781683939856/
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalist for Myth and Fantasy StudiesIf a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative…

Bloomsbury
VirginicusSep 20, 2025
Notes from this month’s conference on #AlliterativeVerse at the University of East Anglia. https://www.idiosophy.com/2025/09/new-perspectives-in-alliteration-well-half-anyway/
New Perspectives in Alliteration (well, half, anyway)

On September 1st I participated in a conference on New Perspectives on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History. It was organized by Tim Anderson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of …

Idiosophy
14missionSep 16, 2025
@rajeshdhawan If you're comfortable posting some of your work here, you'll probably meet lots of like-minded folks. Ok if you don't want to, of course.
Regarding hashtags, some will get you more to read than you want. I followed #Haiku for a bit, but it was too much. #Sonnet is more reasonable. Sadly I get very little via #AlliterativeVerse.
If you can read poems in any other languages, don't forget hashtags for them too.
VirginicusSep 8, 2025
I gave a talk on statistical measurement of alliteration in texts, and what I found there. #AlliterativeVerse #DigitalHumanities https://www.idiosophy.com/2025/09/the-hunt-for-alliterative-melody/
The Hunt for Alliterative Melody

As presented at “New Perspectives on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History”, University of East Anglia, 1 September 2025 1. Introduction What’s the purpose of alliteration in modern poetry? T…

Idiosophy
VirginicusFeb 28, 2025
New poem in #AlliterativeVerse
https://brazen-head.org/2025/02/26/the-song-of-david-and-abishag/
The Song of David and Abishag

PAUL DEANE is a computational linguist by profession and a poet by avocation. Since 1999, he has edited Forgotten Ground Regained, a website and (since 2023) a quarterly journal devoted to modern E…

The Brazen Head
RhunedhelFeb 27, 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 #biblical #verse #Christian #alliterativeverse
VirginicusJan 29, 2025
A short piece from NPR about #AlliterativeVerse. https://academicminute.org/2025/01/dennis-wilson-wise-university-of-arizona-discovering-the-modern-alliterative-revivaldennis-wise-university-of-arizona-discovering-the-modern-alliterative-revival/
Dennis Wilson Wise, University of Arizona - Discovering the Modern Alliterative Revival - The Academic Minute

A form of poetry that’s been out of style for centuries may be making a comeback. Dennis Wilson Wise, professor of practice at the University of Arizona, explains why. Dennis Wilson Wise is a professor of practice at the University of Arizona, and he has published dozens of research articles on fantasy, science fiction, and […]

The Academic Minute