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Paul Deane
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Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (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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Some emotions transcend time. Especially the grief of love betrayed. @MaryannCorbett's The Translator, Working Late (in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, alliteration.net/poetry/the-t...#poetry#poetrycommunity#poetrylovers#alliterativeverse#oldenglish#anglosaxonliterature

The Translator, Working Late, by Maryann Corbett Oh girl, I get you. Grief: the gulf of it. Those -ceare compounds. Uhtceare, for instance, where you lie limp in the earliest light, knowing nothing, numb with the miserable memory of a love that crumpled to malice. The story stumbles -- I understand that. Maybe there are muffling layers of myth earthing you in. I'm aiming under, to mine that woe, the marrow of that wailing. He ran, to start with. His reasons are a riddle, a fumble. You followed, flogged by the gossip ...
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Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (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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