Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
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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For #BlueSkyRelay #ascendant, I'll plug Matthew Bullen of @ogre.red's "Serenity Falls Up".
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
Serenity Falls Up by Matthew Bullen
A frond stretches fingers / through the ivy's twine, / grasping at a black-throated / finch pecking at a puddle ...
alliteration.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
For #BlueSkyRelay #ascendant, I'll plug Matthew Bullen of @ogre.red's "Serenity Falls Up".
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
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The PBS episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9o...
My article on Judy-Lynn for The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-woman-wh...
My article on Judy-Lynn for The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-woman-wh...
How Judy-Lynn del Rey shaped science fiction as we know it today | Short Documentary | RENEGADES
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The PBS episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9o...
My article on Judy-Lynn for The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-woman-wh...
My article on Judy-Lynn for The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-woman-wh...
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Yup. For #BlueSkyRelay #numinous, how about this poem by Fred Chappell? "My Grandfather's Church Goes Up"
alliteration.net/poetry/my-grandfathers-church-goes-up/
#alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovrers
alliteration.net/poetry/my-grandfathers-church-goes-up/
#alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovrers
My Grandfather's Church Goes Up by Fred Chappell
One of the most famous alliterative poems of the 20th century, by a renowned North Carolina poet.
alliteration.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yup. For #BlueSkyRelay #numinous, how about this poem by Fred Chappell? "My Grandfather's Church Goes Up"
alliteration.net/poetry/my-grandfathers-church-goes-up/
#alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovrers
alliteration.net/poetry/my-grandfathers-church-goes-up/
#alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovrers
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Per my usual, here's a link to my whole online translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to date.
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
#alliterative #Arthurian #epic #poetry #SirGawain #GreenKnight #alliteration #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
#alliterative #Arthurian #epic #poetry #SirGawain #GreenKnight #alliteration #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
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.
alliteration.net
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Per my usual, here's a link to my whole online translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to date.
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
#alliterative #Arthurian #epic #poetry #SirGawain #GreenKnight #alliteration #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/
#alliterative #Arthurian #epic #poetry #SirGawain #GreenKnight #alliteration #medievalsky #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
For #BlueSkyRelay #ascendant, I'll plug Matthew Bullen of @ogre.red's "Serenity Falls Up".
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
Serenity Falls Up by Matthew Bullen
A frond stretches fingers / through the ivy's twine, / grasping at a black-throated / finch pecking at a puddle ...
alliteration.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
For #BlueSkyRelay #ascendant, I'll plug Matthew Bullen of @ogre.red's "Serenity Falls Up".
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
alliteration.net/poetry/seren...
I'm afraid I don't. I'm thinking about what to do with it once I finish it, but I still have 20 stanzas to go (and I need to review the first section, which I did long ago before I understood Middle English alliterative verse as well as I do now.)
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I'm afraid I don't. I'm thinking about what to do with it once I finish it, but I still have 20 stanzas to go (and I need to review the first section, which I did long ago before I understood Middle English alliterative verse as well as I do now.)