Forgotten Ground Regained
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Thaliarchus
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Thaliarchus is the pen name of a British scholar of Middle English. His major poetic project is a mecha space opera/epic poem, Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, published on the gaming site, itch.io. It is primarily in blank verse, but characters from one of the cultures in conflict in his epic sometimes speak in alliterative verse [it forms their highest register]. He has also written three other poems set in the same universe, which also use alliterative verse for high-register dialogue: Spearhand Faring, Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal, and The Mountain, After, and A Cherry Blossom Crown also published on itch.io. He also posted occasional experiments in alliterative verse to his cohost site (now only accessible through the Internet Archive), including Finnsburh Reimagined, Homeward runs heart-path, Daringly, daffodils, A career on the rock tips, From a bus with a bow wave, and Roof-tiles under rain-cloud, among others.
He has published the following poems in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse):
- Christmas Walk (an experiment in alliterative metrics inspired by the rhythmic patterns of the Middle English bob-and-wheel), in Issue 1
- Farewell, in Issue 4
- Connect to Object-30-79-49-13, a science fiction hypertext poem in Old English meter, in Issue 12.
He also posts occasional pieces in alliterative verse on social media, including:
- 'Billionaire baldmost ... '
- 'A wit healthy | would fly ware and cowed ..'
- 'Every flower upflowing ...'
- 'The frost-haired among that fire-trained host ...'
- 'Then his journey, I judge ...'
- 'Hard-seeking homes ...'
- 'A nerve awry | knocks him earthward .. '
- 'Now slip slice-path through slam-siege again ...'
- 'And do gaunt lost ones …'
- 'Grin, on your gradcams …'
- 'Meet a new maker …', blank verse in Old English Sieversian rhythms.
- “See how Watling Street …”,
- “Sword lies not silent…”
- Five Japanese Sights
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