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. This award is €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English published in 2024 by a poet residing in Ireland. Judges this year were were Dean Browne, Mary O’Donnell and Maurice Riordan.

Limited places are available for a cosy reception at the Farmgate where the winning poet, Victoria Kennefick, will receive her prize and present a short reading. The full shortlist is posted here.