It is not in dry, academic dissection
but in breathing, juicy performance that the poetry of Gerard Manley
Hopkins can be experienced at its best. By infusing the verses with
the energy of love – love of lyric, love of music and love
of Hopkins - and by adapting these wonderful poems into a modern
musical idiom, Sean O’Leary has taken several giant strides
towards making Gerard’s work accessible to new generations
and realising the poet’s own wish that his work, if ever published,
’ought…to be followed up’.
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