The Guardian, 8 June 2017
Gerard Manley Hopkins: the poet priest who deserves a place in the gay canon
Wrestling with his desires while committed to Jesuit celibacy left poetry as the only outlet for Hopkins’s sexuality, which rings with pent-up passion, writes Simon Edge
BBC Radio Wales, 24 May 2017
Arts Show with Nicola Heywood Thomas
‘I have learned an awful lot from your book and enjoyed it as well. It is certainly not a textbook, it is a riotous read’
Northamptonshire Telegraph, 14 September 2017
Finedon’s ‘forgotten’ genius
New book sheds slight on ‘wildly unconventional’ son of the lord of the manor of Finedon whose early death robbed English literature of a great poet.
Irish Times, 22 May 2017
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ UCD misery was literature’s gain
The unhappy soul who would be recognised as a literary visionary only after his death arrived at University College Dublin in 1885, inspiring the poetic equivalent of Munch’s The Scream
BBC Radio 4, 21 May 2017
Sunday programme
Gerard Manley Hopkins is the inspiration for a new novel,
The Hopkins Conundrum. Simon Edge tells Edward Stourton how his attitude towards organised religion changed as his personal life became intertwined with themes in the book.
BookBrunch, 22 May 2017
Lightning: a new deal for authors
Simon Edge reports on an author’s experience of a new model for publishing
Attitude, 18 May 2017
Victorian gay men and the lure of Rome
For men who found themselves attracted to their own sex, being drawn to the Catholic church in the 1860s was like listening to Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s, writes Simon Edge
Daily Express, 8 May 2017
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Writer Simon Edge describes the tragic 19th-century shipwreck which was the inspiration for his latest novel The Hopkins Conundrum
