The forthcoming book Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology (December 2023) may interest some readers…
If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? […] this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets. […] 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 also includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism.
No mention of Tolkien, but I guess it may have been difficult or expensive to get the Tolkien Estate’s permission to reprint?
See also the 2021 article in Studies in the Fantastic, titled “Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry” on…
a wholly neglected subset of the alliterative revival [which] involves American genre poets working in fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
Thanks for the mention! Yeah, the Tolkien Estate absolutely refuses to let anthologies reprint any of his poetry. Still a ton of good stuff in there, though, plus all of CS Lewis’s alliterative verse.