Poetry
A contribution to the Books of the Year supplement in The Tablet of 30 November 2024:
There is something remarkable going on in the poetry of Father Paul Murray, a crystallisation progressing from one volume to the next, though without lessening his poems’ characteristic earthiness and intimacy. Light at the Torn Horizon contains many fine pieces in a register stretching from the playful (‘Canticle in Praise of Punctuation’) to the deeply serious (‘To a Friend Dying’). I have read it with reverence, attention, and gratitude.
