Rahul Gupta (Rahul Chandra Das Gupta)

Rahul Gupta (Rahul Chandra Das Gupta, born 1976) is a British Anglophone poet and verse-translator of Hindu Indian and Anglo-Celtic descent, specializing in epic poetry in Old English and Old Norse alliterative versifications. He holds a PhD from the University of York, where his thesis focused on medieval Germanic and modern medievalist metre and poetics.

His major work is an Arthurian epic written in alliterative verse that has been praised by Tom Shippey as "the most accomplished, imaginative and technically-correct alliterative verse in Modern English since Tolkien." Parts of this work have been published in The Long Poem Magazine and The Temenos Academy Review, with John Matthews describing it as "one of the truly great mythic works of our time."

Gupta's poetry and translations have appeared in various literary journals including Agenda, Acumen, Eborakon, Equinox, Molly Bloom, and Spectral Realms. His work often engages with Old English and Norse poetic forms, and he has produced numerous translations from these languages. He is particularly known for his technically precise adaptations of medieval alliterative metres in modern English verse.