Robert Hopkins is a Dublin-based writer. He worked as a climber in the arboricultural industry in the UK and USA for ten years before returning to Ireland to study History and English Literature at Trinity college. He was longlisted for the 2009 Davy Byrnes Award, has been published in The Stinging Fly and was a regular contributor to the someblindalleys website.
Robert Hopkins
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)