One of the mains aims of DragonSmoke press, in its series ‘Rewriting the Middle Ages’, is to provide an opportunity for writers who are interested in combining scholarship and poetry to engage with the Middle Ages.

As a rational discourse traditional scholarship arrives at limits imposed by its own methodology. For students of the Middle Ages there are so many questions that scholarship will never answer. Poetry, informed by scholarship, can go further and in doing so creative writing becomes a form of genuine research.

At DragonSmoke Press we believe the results should be of interest not only to readers of poetry, but to scholars and those with a general interest in the Middle Ages.