This anthology collects speculative poets from over the last century working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, who have initiated a long unrecognized revival of medieval alliterative poetics.

In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that speculative poets over the last century have initiated a long unrecognized revival of medieval alliterative poetics. This anthology collects for the first time those poets—C. S. Lewis, Poul Anderson, and others—who have fomented this revival.