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This is a blog post by writer Joanna Preston discussing 'Wulf and Eadwacer' from a poet's perspective. The translation provided is a composite made up of translations found on the web. Please note that this is a zipped file: in order to read it,…

Two illustrations for a story I began to write but didn't finish about an imaginary meeting of two cultures, Roman and Anglo Saxon.

The woman looking out over a Saxon village is from a Roman family
her child and husband are buried in the forest…

I wrote this poem after queuing to see the Staffordshire Hoard.

A poem inspired by a reading of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Battle of Maldon'. This poem was first published in my 'New and Selected Poems' (Peterloo, 2005)

The poem is an attempt to personalise an Ango-Saxon warrior from the fragments of archeological material available.

A poem inspired by the Anglo-Saxon church of St Andrew at Greensted in Essex, parts of which are estimated to be over a thousand years old; it is possible that the site has been a place of Christian worship for 1,300 years. St Andrew's is the oldest…

This poem was written in response to the discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial by Anna Coburn.

A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.

Two poems inspired by Anglo-Saxon history and literature.

This is a translation of the first nineteen lines of the Old English poem The Seafarer; I chose this section as it forms a fairly coherent whole but still gives a strong sense of the atmosphere of the poem.