Rahul Gupta, the most accomplished, imaginative, and technically-correct exponent of alliterative verse since Tolkien (Tom Shippey), holds a PhD from the University of York for a thesis on Old English and Old Norse poetry and the 19th-20th -century Mediaevalist alliterative revival. His poems, prose, and translations have been published in Agenda, Acumen, Eborakon, Equinox, Molly Bloom, Spectral Realms (US), and Widowinde, among other journals, and online at British Intelligence, The Society of Classical Poets (US), and The Brazen Head
