The Windhover The Windhover "The Windhover" is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written on May 30, 1877, but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection "Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins". Hopkins dedicated the poem "to Christ our Lord". "Windhover" is another name for the common kestrel ("Falco tinnunculus"). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then
Bonnie Bird between dance school and the dance profession and to encourage young choreographers, with a performing entity at its heart, Transitions Dance Company. Furthering this work, friends of Bird celebrated her 70th birthday in 1984 by instituting the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund, whose awards are known, after 2015, as "Bonnies." Bird retired from Laban in 1989. A year later, in 1990, the CNAA awarded Bird a Doctor of Arts degree, "honoris causa", for her work pioneering degree programs in dance in the UK. In 2002 at the opening of the Laban Dance Centre in London's Creekside—seven years after her death—Bird was