The Hopkins Society Journal: No. 43 2023

‘Hopkins and Us’

Contents

Letter from the President

Hopkins and Us: Poems that Touch Us

The Editor’s Introduction plus

12 Members’ Contributions

Hopkins and Us: Teaching and Researching Hopkins in a Second Language

Teaching Hopkins’ Poetry in India – Argha Kumar Banerjee

My Research on Gerard Manley Hopkins – Katarzyna Stefanowicz

Hopkins and Us: Strange Meetings

A Postcard to the Editor – From Merton College, Oxford University

The Ghost of Duns Scotus – Philip Healy

Poetic Pimpernel – Kate Glover

Dappled Things – Song cycle by Stephen Hough – Michael Burgess

Hopkins and Us: A Friend, and Fellow Poet, Remembered

David Scott 1947–2022 – Michael Burgess

Hopkins and Us: New Readings, New Books

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley

Hopkins: Edited Holly Ordway – Jill Robson

Our Hearts are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir: Richard Lischer – Jill Robson

The Bedfordshire Boy: Paul Eric Howlett

Hopkins and Us: Festivals Across the Water

Celebrating Hopkins in Ireland – July 2023 – Elaine Marshall

Hopkins and Us: What Next?

Next Year’s Journal – The Editor – Jill Robson

List of Annual Lectures

Notes on Contributors

HOPKINS AND US: Poems That Touch Our Lives

Introduction

Jill Robson (Editor)

A Hundred Years Later

Kate Glover

My Life with Hopkins

Dudley Harrop

Binsey Poplars: Prophetic Environmental Anxiety

Argha Kumar Banerjee

Hopkins’ ‘The Times are Nightfall’

Wyn Hobson

Peace: As Fresh as When it First Grabbed me

Peter Cadden

Favourites, Touchstones, Prayers

Philip Healy

The Wreck: A Cathedral of a Poem

Chris Martin

GMH Interacts Directly with A Bible Text

Stephen Roe

Peace Slowly coming to Sit in My Branches

Katarzyna Stefanowicz

My Eyes are Drawn to the Light of the Candles

Elaine Marshall

Gerard Manley Hopkins: My first experience

Claire Hutt

Alfonso Watched the Door

Michael Burgess