User:Tommy Murray(Poet)/sandbox

Tommy Murray has have received a number of awards for his poetry including The Kavanagh Memorial in Dundalk the Gerard Manly Hopkins, The Nora Fahy The Tom O’Shea in Swords, and The Poet of Fingal in 2005 2006  and 2010 His work has been published in a number literary publications including Fortnight, Riverine, The Bray Arts Journal, The Kilkenny Literary Review, Ratpit, The Edgeworth Papers, The Drumlin, Revival, Crannog, Ropes Unravelled, Ingredients of Poetry, Riposte, the Stony Thursday Book and an anthology by the late Michael Hartnett? His work has also featured on the UTV documentary ‘Valley of the Kings’ and on RTEs Nationwide. His latest collection, ’Counting Stained Glass Windows’ has just been published by Lapwing

A poet of immense promise JB Keane

Maturing all the time Bryan Mac Mahon

One of Meath’s foremost poets Ken Davis, Meath Chronicle

Delights in his way with words, especially When he transcribes the landscape of Meath into poetry Elizabeth Hickey

His main power point lies in his versatility as a poet And his ability to talk on diverse subjects Louise Tallon The Weekender

He is particularly good at absorbing various kinds of atmosphere And of recreating these atmospheres into verse, he enjoys  looking At the world and his readers will enjoy it too Brendan Kennelly

Tommy Murray has done more for Creative Writing than anyone. Tom O' Malley (Poet)