INTERESTING SNIPPET NUMBER ONE
Dudley Harrop has penned a sonnet about the Lockdown! Click on the link below for the sonnet and you'll see that it's actually a palimpsest of borrowings from other Hopkins poems; there are in fact 20 quotations from 15 different poems. He wonders whether Hopkins Society members might like to see if they can identify these quotations - answers to follow at a later point ….
a_lockdown_lament_answers.pdf
INTERESTING SNIPPET NUMBER TWO
the comedian Frank Skinner has posted an analysis of 'The Windhover' on his poetry podcasts - well worth listening to …
planetradio.co.uk/podcasts/frank-skinner-poetry-podcast/
INTERESTING SNIPPET NUMBER THREE
Very interesting email sent to the secretary, Claire Hutt Sept 3 2018
'Dear Ms. Hutt,
You may have heard that a Hopkins poem was read at the funeral service for Senator John McCain in Washington D.C. Hearing this prompted me to republish my autobiographical essay about the significance of the poet in my life. Members of the society may be interested in my recollections published here:
https://dispatchesfromtheforme rnewworld.com/2018/09/03/my- love-affair-with-gerard- manley-hopkins/
Sincerely,
Rita Byrne Tull'
Dispatches From the Former New World
https://dispatchesfromtheforme rnewworld.com
Dudley Harrop has penned a sonnet about the Lockdown! Click on the link below for the sonnet and you'll see that it's actually a palimpsest of borrowings from other Hopkins poems; there are in fact 20 quotations from 15 different poems. He wonders whether Hopkins Society members might like to see if they can identify these quotations - answers to follow at a later point ….
a_lockdown_lament_answers.pdf
INTERESTING SNIPPET NUMBER TWO
the comedian Frank Skinner has posted an analysis of 'The Windhover' on his poetry podcasts - well worth listening to …
planetradio.co.uk/podcasts/frank-skinner-poetry-podcast/
INTERESTING SNIPPET NUMBER THREE
Very interesting email sent to the secretary, Claire Hutt Sept 3 2018
'Dear Ms. Hutt,
You may have heard that a Hopkins poem was read at the funeral service for Senator John McCain in Washington D.C. Hearing this prompted me to republish my autobiographical essay about the significance of the poet in my life. Members of the society may be interested in my recollections published here:
https://dispatchesfromtheforme rnewworld.com/2018/09/03/my- love-affair-with-gerard- manley-hopkins/
Sincerely,
Rita Byrne Tull'
Dispatches From the Former New World
https://dispatchesfromtheforme rnewworld.com