Modern Alliterative Poetry Book Finally Published (With Two Poems by Me)

This is from Amazon’s blurb: ­If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets — several of whom are previously unpublished — from across North America and Europe. Alongside such established names as C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, Jo Walton, P. K. Page, and W. H. Auden, this anthology includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-Paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism. . . .

And of lesser-known poets, one of whom is . . . moi (cf. October 12; June 24 2022; April 29 2021, et al.)! This was how I put it that April 29, two years before: Remember “The Worm in the Wood” and “The Westfarer” (cf. March 28 and February 5)? These were the poems initially published about a quarter of a century back, but with much earlier stylistic roots, to be published anew in a scholarly book. And so the writing life continues, this received today from author/compiler Dennis Wise: Here’s the text of your poems as currently laid out for the anthology, including headnote and footnotes. The only thing I need is your year of birth (for the headnote). . . . The text of the poems themselves should be fine, since I took them directly from the .rtf file you so helpfully sent me earlier.

The book itself is SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL, to come out from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Rowman & Littlefield Publishers around mid-2022 [sic], with the two poems themselves originally published in STAR*LINE, May/June 2001, and DARK DESTINY: PROPRIETORS OF FATE (White Wolf, 1995), respectively.

And now it’s here! Around late 2023 (contrast the slowness of the academic publishing world, with my AVOID SEEING A MOUSE book just below). But another difference too — warning to readers! — as a scholarly tome in a hardback edition it’s rather pricey. Or $45 just for the Kindle! Or, see for yourself by clicking here. ­

(But editor/compiler Wise does add that a paperback option should be coming out, in about eighteen months!)