Poet & Writer Paul
Mariani holds a Chair in English at Boston College and is 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.
The TABLET 13 May 2006
No lover of poetry, no lover of G M Hopkins,
no one with a splash of nature mysticism in their veins, and certainly
no Christian should be without this deeply-moving and inspirational
album.
‘Let Me Be To Thee As The Circling Bird’
and ‘The Alchemist In The City’ from The Poems of Gerard
Manley Hopkins, 4th edition (1970) edited by Gardner, W.H &
MacKenzie, N.H.. Extract from Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Cathy
Phillips (The Oxford Authors), 1986. By permission of Oxford University
Press on behalf of the British Province of the Society of Jesus.
All Gerard Manley Hopkins verse taken from
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 4th edition (1970) edited by
Gardner, W.H & MacKenzie, N.H.. By permission of Oxford University
Press on behalf of the British Province of the Society of Jesus.
Minor changes have been made to Hopkins' original
material for the purposes of musical adaptation. Minor differences
also exist between the text of these lyrics and the recorded versions
of the songs.
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. 