Cork International Poetry Festival: Dean Browne wins Farmgate Poetry Award 

Browne, who is this year’s writer-in-residence at UCC, his alma mater, describes himself as a full-time poet who has a Master’s degree in English but is most definitely not in an ivory tower, writes Colette Sheridan

Dean Browne is the winner of a prestigious poetry prize in Cork. 

The “benign indifference” of poet Dean Browne’s parents towards their son’s life choice, followed by acceptance, could be said to have paid off. As part of the Cork International Poetry Festival, Browne has been revealed as the winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award, worth €2,000.

This surrealist poet, influenced by the late Cork-based poet Matthew Sweeney who was a friend and mentor of his, won the award for his debut collection, After Party, published by Picador.