Tuesday, 12th May

You will not need to provide your Eventbrite ticket as your name will be checked off a list at the door. Bookstall sales will be by card only (we cannot accept cash).

The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award

6.30pm, Farmgate Cafe
Eventbrite Ticket

The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award was established in 2019 with sponsorship from one of Cork’s most loved restaurants, The Farmgate Café. 55 valid entries have been received for the Farmgate National Poetry Award for the best original collection in English (or translated into English for the first time) published by a poet living on the island of Ireland in the calendar year of 2025. These are listed at munsterlit.ie/farmgate and the award is worth €2000. This year’s judges are the poets Ailbhe Darcy, Maya C. Popa and Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Limited places are available for a cosy reception at the Farmgate where the winning poet will receive their prize and present a short reading. A shortlist will be announced in April. In a year where a debut collection does not win the overall Farmgate Café National Poetry Award, the highest scoring debut collection in the competition will be awarded the separate Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award (this award is for €1000).