Marian's poetry is generous, intense and beautifully realized. I love her insights and observations, a watcher in life she writes with clarity and passion. Marian has a particular lightness of touch that conceals a deep wisdom that comes from her individual experience of life.
– Jo Slade, has published five poetry collections and two chapbooks.
Marian O'Rourke's poems can be caustic, outspoken, mythic, observant of both the familiar and the exotic, mysterious, elegiac, tender and unflinchingly honest. In all her modes, we find the essential dialogue with feeling, and the frequent spark of lyric transformation. Her willingness to vary her approaches, creating a range of poetic possibilities, is also remarkable.
– Ciaran O'Driscoll, has published eight books of poetry and is a member of Aosdána