Shortlist announced for Farmgate Café National Poetry Award

The winning poet will be presented with their prize at Cork International Poetry Festival 

Patrick Cotter, director of the upcoming Cork Poetry Festival, pictured at the Farmgate Cafe at the English Market in Cork. Picture: Des Barry

The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award was established in 2019 with sponsorship from one of Cork’s most loved restaurants, The Farmgate Café, the English Market. The partnership between the Munster Literature Centre and the Farmgate received the Business to Arts 2019 Best Small Sponsorship Award. 

Revived in 2023, the award will be €2,000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English (including translations from other languages) published in 2022, by a poet residing in Ireland. Judges this year were Colm Breathnach, Eleanor Hooker and Thomas McCarthy. Six poets have been shortlisted for the award.