Editing Alliterative verse (section)

=== Alliterative verse as a modern poetry genre ===
During the 21st century there has also been an increase in the number of original English poems in alliterative verse included in poetry journals and in collections published by practicing poets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poets and Writers: Going Alliterative |url=https://alliteration.net/community/poetswriters |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Forgotten Ground Regained |language=en}}</ref> This increase included the publication of a number of long poems in alliterative verse,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Long Poems in Allitative Verse: Epics, Ecogues, and Other Book-Length Publicationsh |url=https://alliteration.net/books/long-poems |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Forgotten Ground Regained |language=en}}</ref> and even children's verse, in the form of [[Zach Weinersmith]]'s humorous alliterative epic, ''[[Bea Wolf]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weinersmith |first=Zach |title=Bea Wolf |publisher=MacMillan |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-250-32363-7 |location=New York, NY}}</ref> A recent book on the subject by Dennis Wilson Wise<ref>https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683933304/Speculative-Poetry-and-the-Modern-Alliterative-Revival-A-Critical-Anthology Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology]</ref> includes one hundred and fifty poems by fifty-five poets, more original (as opposed to translated) English alliterative verse by more poets between two covers than anything that has been published since before Gutenberg invented the printing press.{{efn|This is not, in fact, a particularly hard bar to surpass, as ''Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival'' appears to be the first anthology of original alliterative verse (as opposed to translations) published in the modern era.}} The index of published authors on Forgotten Ground Regained,<ref>[https://alliteration.net Forgotten Ground Regained]</ref> a website devoted to tracking modern English alliterative verse, includes more than one hundred forty individual poets, and links to works by more than one hundred and twenty five other individuals posted on blogs, social media posts, fan fiction sites, and other online channels for informal communication.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Published Authors of Alliterative Verse |url=https://alliteration.net/authors |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Forgotten Ground Regained |language=en}}</ref>