TOLD BY FIRELIGHT IN TIMBERED HALLS book cover

Wahey! My alliterative-verse collection, TOLD BY FIRELIGHT IN TIMBERED HALLS was nominated for an Elgin Award! That's a lovely thing to wake up to.

Exclusive: YA limited series B.O. WOLF reimagines the classic poem SHP Comics has announced YA limited series B.O. Wolf, a dual-timeline story that reimagines the Old English poem Beowulf.

Exclusive: YA limited series B.O. WOLF reimagines the classic poem

SHP Comics has announced YA limited series B.O. Wolf, a dual-timeline story that reimagines the Old English poem Beowulf.

Looking forward to next Sunday :-) Thank you, @rhunedhel.bsky.social #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #litmag #ukpoets

Representative Poetry Online Representative Poetry Online is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years.

OK, I've done a draft of the fight scene between Beowulf and Grendel translated into modern western Canadian small town dirtbag English. To see the original, go to rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/beow... at lines 702–863.

This is subject to improvement. Also it's, as mentioned, 161 lines long. LFG

Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 10, Spring 2026: Moment Sensed and Seen

The Spring issue of Forgotten Ground Regained comes out 4/26, including poetry by:
@thmazing.bsky.social @anthonyetherin.bsky.social
@helen-evans.bsky.social @etherealcolburn.bsky.social

and articles by:
@denniswise.bsky.social and @graywyvern.bsky.social

#alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #litmag

Generally, no. Hand copied manuscripts were often assembled by copying as many texts as would fit and seemed interesting.

Here's how the manuscript of the Alliterative Morte Arthure starts when it's transcribed ...

quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AllitM...

Reposting this as there must be OE metrics fans on here
@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social

Well…yes…

The Gawain Poet: "Noah's Flood" A poem by the Gawain poet, translated by Marie Borroff—"Then from the bowels of the abyss boiled up the big waters; / Each wellhead spewed wide its…

yalereview.org/article/noah...

Well, part of it's just that it was modern scholars who gave the titles. 😘

The Alliterative Morte Arthur is one of the most important poems of the 14th Century British alliterative revival, after Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Another big Middle English alliterative romance is The Fall of Troy.

@arobertswrites.com

My single eye | sought out fleeting soul-marker signs | of insurgent life, anti-social | agitators, the usual yoked | euphemisms orders issued. | Or else I stalked mist-murk woodlands, | unmoving for hours in damp drip-dark, | endured waiting, gun-barrels grown | like green-mossed boughs in a fell forest. | Or I fought my peers, others bonded | in iron bodies impervious to pain; | with pile bunker, beam bone-searing, | and bullet’s flight marking masters’ | immense hunger for land, for might, | for lance-won pride.

Trying stuff out.

Arthurian romance was a whole genre in the late Middle Ages. Kind of like fantasy noe.

Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar?

Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. 📖

Join us for the book launch!
📅 Apr 23
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April 16th clouds slate and crimsoncloak wind, wanderers — both benton deeds of legend

isikyus.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/a...

Boethius and the Mighty Boosh Never piss off an Ostrogoth

substack.com/home/post/p-...

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

The parlement of the thre ages, an alliterative poem of the XIVth century, now first ed., from manuscripts in the British museum, with introduction, notes, and appendices containing the poem of "Winne... The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the All Files: HTTP link in the View the book box to the left to find XML files that contain more...

Dans The Parlement of the Thre Ages (fin XIVe) c'est Gauvain (Wawayne) qui remplace Bédivère pour jeter l'épée d'Arthur dans la mer, mais apparemment ça pourait être une correction de Yvain (Ewane) qui aurait originellement figuré dans le texte ?

archive.org/details/cu31...

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Anybody on #medievalsky able to answer this wuestion?

Poem 845 – A Türkiye Sundae The tips of Turkish mountains rise abovethe whipped cream clouds. Upon their ivory creststhe trees appear like sprinkled treats. I longto taste their paths and tread their ancient streets. What gai…

Poem 845 - A Türkiye Sundae
Tempted
odefortheday.art/2026/04/08/p...
#Poetry #Olüdeniz #Hills

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse (Chapter 11) - Old English Medievalism Old English Medievalism - November 2022

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www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!

Ancient Exchanges have finally managed to re-upload their archive of past issues after moving website host.

This means my translations of the Old Norse visionary poem "Sólarljóð" and Old English lyric "The Wanderer" are now available again:

exchanges.uiowa.edu/ancient-exch...

Call for Submissions: Alliterative Verse in Arda Here's a chance to publish alliterative Tolkien fan poems on Forgotten Ground Regained. Submit by June 1

Do you like Tolkien's alliterative verse? Do you perhaps write some of your own? Then my next open call for submissions is for you ...

alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/ #tolkien #arda #middleearth #elven #rohirrim #lotr #silmarillion #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #tolkiensky #fanfic #poems

Escape Ah, so you've found us. Well then... I suppose you'd better come in.

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I recently came across an "Amazon Edition" of The Count of Monte Cristo that had apparently been "translated" by an LLM ... among many howlers, Villefort was renamed Villiform, and LeClere, Lecturer ...

So it's not just Google that is lobotomizing the heck out of things.

this is just to say

I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline

and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll

forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited

open.substack.com/pub/theseain...

#BlueSkyPoets #poetry #Irishpoets #Spring