Since 2015, OENPP has moved beyond strictly narrative poetry, venturing into other genres of early English verse, including a complete translation of the Exeter Book riddles, the poems of …

Let us be soothing to God more eagerly, despising foul deeds, laboring towards peace, the multitude to the Lord, as long as day may shine for us, so that the most noble of dwellings

The Wanderer “How often the lone-dweller anticipates some sign, this Measurer’s mercy — must always must— mind-caring, along the ocean’s windings, stirring rime-chill seas, hands as oars …

a great company of warriors. It occurred to his mind that he wished to command his men to construct a great mead-house, the hall of all halls— what the children of men had always …

That story a man of the world must find it in his heart, one more learned than I account myself, one who might know all those hardships and savage battles from the beginning that Andrew …

The Seafarer I can talk treks, truth-tales twisting — every word my wracking — how I buckle underneath these hours of fuckeries, long dredging days — grudged to the gall, the stew of my …

Riddle 73 I blossomed in a bower— dwelt where they fed me, the earth and the skies above, until men changed me round, old in years—they were hostile to me— went away from my nature,

and here I was splattered with sin, impaled on my imperfections. I gazed upon the glorious growth, wreathed in its worthy windings, joyfully aglow, garnished in golden: gemstones …

his only heritage upon the earth, the comfort of his life. Then he experienced such lengthy joy from that moment, a legacy to men. It was revealed to him, when he had seized that boy, fast …

about the match of his pairing—his might was slashed, deprived of his friends upon the folk-stead, smitten in battle, and losing his son upon the slaughter-field, ground down by wounds, the …