Alliteration once and always

Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival – A Critical Anthology Dennis Wilson Wise (ed.), Lanham, Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2023, 407pps., US$65 The phrase ‘alliterative poetry’ immediately connotes archaism, and a literary tradition almost moribund since the mid-fifteenth century. University of Arizona academic Dennis Wilson Wise suggests that the form has been revived… Continue reading