Gerard Manley Hopkins’s long, most ambitious poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, is broken up and considered over three days. For those who are not familiar with poetry or do not know the work of Hopkins, this will be a stimulating new development. The most obviously uplifting of the poems comes from the time when Hopkins was based at St Beuno’s in North Wales. God’s most deep decreeBitter would have me taste: my taste was me. Dappled Beauty: Through Lent with Gerard Manley HopkinsCarys WalshCanterbury Press £12.99(978-1-78622-527-6)Church Times Bookshop £10.39