The article reports that Gerard Manley Hopkins's ‘Epithalamion' as a Poem of Queer (Non)performance by Eugene O'Connor is a sharp and lively response to a poem that, as O'Connor points out, has garnered a fair amount of queer-theory critical attention over the past twenty years or so. Topics include considered that O'Connor contextualizes the composition of the poem within his perception of Hopkins's life and state of mind at the time the poet wrote it.