O’Leary
has done what I never thought I would hear: a wonderfully new, electrically
charged version of the poet dearest to the heart of many of us.
Paul MarianiPoet & Writer, Chair in English
at Boston College former poetry editor for America magazine
currently writing a biography of Hopkins
O'Leary has been compared to Dylan and Johnny Cash. His eclectic
sound incorporates chants and hymn-like compositions. A woodlark
even sings in Hopkins' onomatopoeic homage to that bird.
The TABLET 13
May 2006
Beautiful renditions of Hopkins's poems that can strike like
lightnings to the heart's core.
Jerome BumpProfessor of Literature, Texas University
Gerard
Manley Hopkins' poems to music by Sean O'Leary