[Maryann Corbett]

On the blog Poetry Out Loud, there have been several days of features from this collection:

Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

There's fascinating work on the website, and from the table of contents I see that the collection also includes work by Alicia Stallings, Marcia Karp, and many more, including a great many formalist friends.

I haven't listened yet--I'm hurrying to make this post--but I mean to!

[Cyn Neely]

Thanks for bringing it to our attention

[Lance Levens]

That collection looks delicious. X-Mas present for myself. Thanks Maryann.

[Maryann Corbett]

Bumping this up again to note that Marcia Karp's translation has now appeared on the Poems Out Loud site--apologies for not catching this on the day it was first up:

I saw at foreplaying two wondrous ones

[Janice D. Soderling]

That is a very impressive line-up at both sites. And poets I respect highly for their craft.

thanks so much for this information, Maryann, and awed congratulations to Marcia and Alicia.

[Gail White]

This does look like a wonderful collection.

This gives me a chance to ask you, Maryann, if you know anything about an Anglo-Saxon poem that I remember enjoying but am now unable to find. It's all about the heroic deeds the narrator would accomplish in order to reach "the wife of the red-haired man" (possibly his own wife, as this was before courtly love days).

[Maryann Corbett]

Nothing in Old English is ringing any bells, Gail, though there's an Irish song called "the red-haired man's wife." Your summary sounds a little like "The Husband's Message" but not enough like, and that makes no reference to a red-haired man. I'll ponder.

[Gail White]

Well, maybe I was thinking in Gaelic, Maryann.
Thanks for cogitating about it.