Monday, May 12th

These Monday Fringe Events (not managed or produced by the Munster Literature Center) are events that we are delighted to draw attention to.

Launch of Quality Control at the Miracle Factory by Patrick Cotter

6.30pm, Waterstones | Free

The fourth full-length collection of poems by Patrick Cotter, Quality Control at the Miracle Factory reflects the dark times of its writing, moving with unease through the world. Injustice and brutality are faced unflinchingly while the miracle of survival and endurance is credited and marvelled at, wherever it might occur.

Patrick Cotter is an Irish poet, born in Cork City where he still lives. His poems have been published in journals such as the Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Poetry and Poetry Review. He is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, his fourth full-length collection, is published by Dedalus Press in 2025.

Ó Bhéal go Béal: Guest Poet Damen O'Brien

7.30pm, The Hayloft Bar | Free

7.30 p.m. Selection of Cork and Irish Poetry Films
8.30 p.m. Five Word Challenge
9.20 p.m. Guest poet & later Open-Mic

Damen O'Brien is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. In 2024, he won the Fingal Poetry Prize, the Ware Poets International Poetry Competition, the Ros Spencer Poetry Prize, the Letter Review Poetry Prize, the Hunter Writers' Centre Prize and the Val Vallis Award. His poems have been published in the London Magazine, Dreich Magazine, Live Encounters, Southword, Other Terrain and many other journals. His latest book of poetry is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).