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
John Bird (actor) "Absolute Power" with Stephen Fry. Bird has also guest-starred in a number of television series, an example being the "Jonathan Creek" episode "The Three Gamblers", in which he plays a police inspector. He is known in the UK for his work with John Fortune and Rory Bremner in "Bremner, Bird and Fortune", which has won several awards. In the series of sketches with John Fortune, known as "The Long Johns", one of the two men interviews the other in the guise of a senior figure such as a politician, businessman or government consultant, invariably called George Parr. In one of