"This is poetry of great wisdom and maturity. Technically, there are astonishingly well-finished poems here..... The work combines experience, thought and very strong as well very poignant passion.......it is the product of a truly gifted and particularly poetic intelligence."

Thomas McCarthy Cork Literary Review no. 9. p.145.

"Tony's writing is sensitive, perceptive, sensuous and emotional. He makes his own music, paints his own pictures. Retaining the wonderment of childhood, his poems speak from a deep level of consciousness. He sculpts shapes, creates textures and colours, opens our eyes to a new way of seeing, a new imaginative experience."

Patricia Burke Brogan

"... has a sure-footed approach and is well tuned to the natural world. There is also a lyricism to this poetry and when this is matched or married to form ... it is very successful."

Joan McBreen

"... O'Dwyer proves he can write in a fresh way about even the most time-worn subjects."

Kevin Higgins, Galway Advertiser