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We are delighted to welcome the following speakers (with titles of their papers) the 37th Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival 2025.
Hopkins and Pre-Lapsarian Strain: Linda Freedman (University College London)
Desolation Sonnets of Hopkins and France Prešeren: Mirko Starčević: (University of Ljubljana)
Film and flick, scum and skin: A Lenten meditation on transformation: Amy Hezel (Regis University, USA)
‘What Heart Heard Of’: Katherine Coles (University of Utah, USA)
‘Deep Down Things’: Soil, Ecology, and Christ’s Body in Hopkins’s Poetry: Joshua King (Baylor Uni, USA)
Hopkins's 'Terrible Sonnets': an exercise in despair: Eamon Kiernan (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
‘The Least Lash Lost:’ Conventual Context for ‘The Leaden Echo’ and the ‘Golden Echo’: Lydia Martin, (Baylor University, USA)
From 'sinew-service' to '(running cable)': Graham Foust (Denver University, USA)
Hopkins with the Austrian poet Christine Lavant: Geoff Howes (Bowling Green State Uni., USA)
Spiritual Crisis in ‘Carrion Comfort’: Morri Creech (Queens Uni. of Charlotte, USA)
Hopkins and Metaphysical Poetry: Joseph Phelan (De Montfort University, UK)
Secular vs. Sacred Anthropology in G.M. Hopkins: John North (Uni of Waterloo, Canada)
Oxford Made Us Catholics: Kevin Fagan (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
Eccentric Hopkins: Rainer Emig (Uni of Mainz, Germany)
Hopkins and the American Puritan Poets: Brett Millier (Middlebury College, USA)
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Pope Francis: Michael Woods (Worcester Uni., UK)
Hopkins and the Verse-Line: Koji Katsurayama (Kansai Uni, Japan)
Free to be accurate: the sonnets in Ireland: Michael Allsopp (Australia)
The Influence of J. M. W. Turner's depictions of sea storms on ‘The Wreck’: Katarzyna Stefanowicz (Birmingham University, UK)
Hopkins, Barmouth and ‘Penmaen Pool’: Elaine Marshall (G.M. Hopkins Society, UK)
Hopkins and Victorian Poets: Miho Takashi (Kansai University, Osaka)
Quid est innocentia? Reflections and Considerations on the Meaning and Value of Innocence in Hopkins’s Poetry: Giuseppe Serpillo (University of Sassari)
Spiritual Crisis in ‘Carrion Comfort’: Morri Creech (Queens Uni. of Charlotte, USA)
Explore The Hopkins Archive - over 100 Talks, Lectures on Hopkins and his Poetry
