The Author: Piotr Gasiorowski was born in 1960 and educated at Warsaw Polytechnic and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). In 1988 he joined the staff of Poznan University in the School of English (Department of Modern Languages), where he is still teaching English. In 1994 he received his Ph.D in English Studies. He has written articles on the historical phonology of English and on Indo-European phonology.

• Contents: Analysis of Old English syllable structure and stress patterns - A new metrical theory of Old English stress, based on a count of moras - An exhaustive description of stress-dependent phonological phenomena in the language - A novel analysis of the verse patterns of Old English poetry.