What a beautiful cover!

Really pleased that THE FIRE THAT BREAKS: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS'S POETIC LEGACIES, originally published in 2020 through a partnership between @cupress.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social, has now been released in paperback.

Report: Saw this on Saturday. A wonderful production. Mescal and Vasan were both fantastic, but Patsy Ferran was transcendent as Blanche. An absolute tour de force.

Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context Cambridge Core - Theology - Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context

So pleased to have been invited to contribute to this remarkable book and to now have it in-hand. Congratulations to Martin Dubois, @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and everyone who worked on this project for bringing such a thoughtful and inspiring collection to life!

When I complained to Theodore Sturgeon about trouble I was having with a scene, he looked at me and said,

"I give you permission to do it wrong."

Most liberating thing I ever heard.

Somehow I was able to get tickets to see Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan, and Patsy Ferran in A Streetcar Named Desire in March. Pinching ourselves already!

Emma (2020)

It was my first visit, but I will certainly be back. Even the drive down was magical.

I was in Elgol recently, too. I loved it.

Went to see Small Things Like These last night. I think Tim Mielants did a marvelous job bringing Keegan's novella to the screen. Cillian Murphy is wonderful in this. The film is a meditative, slow build, where most of Murphy's work is introspective and nonverbal. Some of his best work, IMO.

Hi all. Coming over from X, and I'm already breathing easier. Thought I should post something, so here's an early-morning photo of Victoria Street I took a few months ago while I was in Edinburgh for a few days working in the National Library.