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This post is from Sue My mum and I loved peanut brittle . Expensive presents weren’t the order of the day growing up but once I sta...

Today we complete our journey from despair to delight, with six of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnets as our travel guide. To celebrate, we s...

We’ve now reached stage 5 of our travels with Gerard Manley Hopkins – and here we find his sonnet Felix Randal. Felix Randal the far...

We’re now at the fourth stage of our journey from despair to delight, and it’s beginning to get a little easier.   Here is today’s sonnet...

The third Hopkins’ poem I’ve chosen to guide us on our journey from despair to delight is called Carrion Comfort. Not, I'll not,...

The second Hopkins poem on our journey from despair to delight is also deeply troubling, but it does offer us a glimmer of light along th...

It's time to take the first step on our journey from despair to delight, taken in the company of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. We’r...