Tuesday, May 13th

You will not need your Eventbrite ticket, 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 | Free but ticketed (Eventbrite)

The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award was established in 2019 with sponsorship from one of Cork’s most loved restaurants, The Farmgate Café. The partnership between the Munster Literature Centre and the Farmgate received the Business to Arts 2019 Best Small Sponsorship Award. The award will be €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English (including translations from other languages) published in 2024, by a poet residing in Ireland. As of 2023, 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. The three judges for this year were Dean Browne, Mary O’Donnell and Maurice Riordan.

Limited places are available for a cosy reception at the Farmgate where the winner will receive their prize and present a short reading. The full shortlist and winner will be posted here in April.