We’re delighted to see that the 2025 Farmgate Café Poetry Prize Shortlist Announcement includes two Gallery authors. Congratulations to Alvy Carragher and Grace Wilentz and to each of the other poets on being selected.
What Remains the Same by Alvy Carragher (The Gallery Press)
The Following Year by Patrick Chapman (Salmon Poetry)
In Spring We Turned to Water by Michael Dooley (Doire Press)
High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press)
Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet Press)
The Shark Nursery by Mary O’Malley (Carcanet Press)
Harmony (Unfinished) by Grace Wilentz (The Gallery Press)
Visit https://munsterlit.ie/farmgate/ for further details and to book your free ticket to the award presentation, taking place on Tuesday 13th May at 6.30p.m. at Cork International Poetry Festival
Alvy Carragher grew up by the River Shannon in Galway and Tipperary and has since lived in Louisiana, Dublin, South Korea, and Canada. She is currently based in Dublin. Her previous collections, Falling in love with broken things (2016) and The men I keep under my bed (2021), were published by Salmon Poetry. What Remains the Same was published by The Gallery Press in 2024. She is a recipient of an Arts Council Literary Bursary and has an MA in Writing from the University of Galway.
Grace Wilentz is the author of The Limit of Light, which was published by The Gallery Press in October 2020 and went on to be named a book of the year in The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has received support from The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon including a Literature Bursary and a Next Generation Award. She is the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame in Dublin. Her most recent collection, Harmony (Unfinished), was published by The Gallery Press in October 2024.
