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@rhunedhel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:14 PM

Sir Gawain confronts the Green Knight at the Green Chapel.

I've just completed stanza #89 out of 101 of my ongoing translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!

Full translation-to-date at alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
#alliterative #poetry #epic #poem #alliterativeverse #SirGawain #GreenKnight

Then the knight announced himself with noise of his own:
“Who holds power in this place and is prepared to meet me?
Here is Gawain the Good! You’ve got him right here.
If anyone wants anything, let him answer quickly
and make his needs known. It is now or never!”
“So, wait!” someone said from somewhere above him,
“and you shall have in a hurry what I’m here to give you.”
Yet he got on with his grinding for a good while longer,
working on his whetting before he went down.
Then he came off the crag where a crevice opened,
and whirled round the wall. His weapon was deadly,
a Danish axe (never dull) to deal out the blow,
with a big blade that bent round the haft –
finished with a file, and more than four feet high.
It loomed even larger against the lace’s brilliance.
The Green Knight and his gear were as green as ever
from his head to his heels, plus his hair and beard.
But he came forth with both feet set firmly on earth,
striking steel to stone as he stalked forward.
When his way reached the water, he didn’t wade across,
but vaulted over on his axe and eagerly strode,
brutal and bloodthirsty, across a broad field covered
with snow.
Sir Gawain bowed in greeting,
but not particularly low.
The other said, “Our meeting
here proves what I wanted to know.”

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:49 PM

So Brian Heming is up to Book 21 in his alliterative verse Odyssey, "Viking Saga Style"

brianheming.substack.com/p/the-odysse...

#Odyssey #Homeric #VikingStyle #saga #EpicPoetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #Norse #Viking #Homer #epic

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 8:14 PM

Forgotten Ground Regained is proud to nominate Tom Pain's poem "Song-Singing" for Orison Book's "Best Spiritual Literature" contest.

alliteration.net/poetry/song-...
#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #spirituality #literature

@uexeterpress.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 10:28 AM

Now in paperback! Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text edited by Eric Weiskott 📖

Learn more and order your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2f3drfdh

#williamlangland #piersplowman #alliterativeverse #dreamvision

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:22 PM

Forgotten Ground Regained is happy to announce the nomination of Eric Colburn's poem "This Moment" to Orison Book's Best Spiritual Literature competition.

alliteration.net/poetry/this-...

#alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #spirituality #spiritualliterature #nomination #alliteration #poem

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 3:49 PM

Forgotten Ground Regained is pleased to announce the nomination of Jane Beal's "Bright Waves from the Wide Caribbean Sea" to Orison Press's "Best Spiritual Literature" competition.

alliteration.net/poetry/brigh...

#alliterative #poetry #alliterative #poem #alliterativeverse #nomination #poetrysky

@mrben16.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 5:08 PM

Poem 1008 - Patiently Made
The keys to the asylum
odefortheday.art/2026/09/19/p...
#Poetry #Key #GlensideHospitalMuseum #AlliterativeVerse

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 2:01 PM

Forgotten Ground Regained is proud to announce the nomination of Carla Galdo's poem "To A Cat" to the Best of the Net competition.

alliteration.net/poetry/to-a-...

#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #catpoetry #BestOfTheInternet #nomination #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 1:22 PM

Forgotten Ground Regained is happy to announce that it is nominating Dorothy Nielsen's poem "Stiletto" for the 2027 Best of the Net Competition.

alliteration.net/poetry/stile...
#alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #alliteration #poem #poetrysky #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #bestofthenet #poem

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 8:39 PM

I am happy to announce that Forgotten Ground Regained has nominated Frank Coffman's poem "The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell" to the Best of the Net Competition.

alliteration.net/poetry/the-g...

#alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #BOTN #BestOfTheNet

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 7:45 PM

"Particles of evil ‧ live in the dispersive
night of the wolf ..."

Pedro Poitevin, "Antimatter"
alliteration.net/poetry/antim... #alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poems #alliterativeverse #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #PoetsOfBlueSky #BlueSkyPoets

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 4:37 PM

... But then, the heavens flash; clouds clash before cracking
with recalcitrant rain, a rollick that mocks my lacking
faith. Even the rocks stand resolute, firm as altar stones.

John C. Mannone, "A Lost Prayer", on Forgotten Ground Regained.
alliteration.net/poetry/a-lost-prayer/
#alliterativeverse

A drought stricken landscape with dead grass and trees without leaves.

@mrben16.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 9:19 PM

Poem 1003 - Alliterative Frogs
Ouch!
odefortheday.art/2026/09/14/p...
#Poetry #Frogs #AlliterativeVerse

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 10:53 PM

Here’s a poem by the late George Johnston, “Boon”.

Heat-weary head · the humid morning
moves with mounting · menace into day …

alliteration.net/poetry/boon/

#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 9:34 PM

Here's a great new alliterative poem by Amit Majmudar in Portico.
porticoquarterly.com/poetry/apoph...
#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 5:38 PM

Here's one of Maryann Corbett's poems I didn't know about. Fun one!

"To the Postal Carrier, About That Railing"
www.terrain.org/2020/poetry/...

#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 4:11 PM

Here's a poem Timothy Murphy contributed to Forgotten Ground Regained back in 1999:

alliteration.net/poetry/talis...

#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 12:56 AM

@stevensearcy.bsky.social's poem Emblem --

A fun poem in an unusual alliterative form.

alliteration.net/poetry/emblem/

#alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

@rhunedhel.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 12:13 PM

Edwin Morgan was the first Scottish makar, or poet laureate. Here's his "Song of the Petrel", an alliterative verse poem that appeared in his first published collection.

alliteration.net/poetry/a-song-of-the-petrel/

#alliterative #poetry #poem #alliterativeverse #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity