by Suella Holland | Apr 15, 2021 | Awards, News
We’re delighted to see Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Collected Poems appear on this year’s Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist. Having published her work since 1972 we know how justly deserved this is. Three poetry collections by Irish poets have made the 2021...
by Suella Holland | Dec 1, 2020 | Awards, News
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is this year’s recipient of the 1573 International Poetry Award, one of China’s highest literary honours. Usually presented during a ceremony at the International Festival of Poetry and Liquor in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, the prize...
by Suella Holland | Aug 11, 2020 | Awards, News
Congratulations to Peter Sirr! Munster Literature Centre has announced the winner of the 2020 Farmgate Café National Poetry Award and we’re delighted to report that it’s The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr. This award is given the best book published in English in the...
by Suella Holland | Mar 30, 2020 | Awards, News
Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin is this year’s winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for her 2019 collection, The Mother House. Poems in The Mother House “are rich and generous and rewarding. Reading them expands our understanding, they remind us of what poetry can...
by Suella Holland | Mar 3, 2020 | Awards, News, Uncategorised
Tickets are available for the 2020 Farmgate Café National Poetry Award presentation and reading. The five shortlisted books/poets (in alphabetical order) are: When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe Books) The End of the World by Patrick Deeley (The Dedalus...
by Suella Holland | Feb 27, 2020 | Awards, Events, News
The shortlist for the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award in alphabetical order is: When the Tree Falls by Jane Clarke, published by Bloodaxe Books The End of the World by Patrick Deeley, published by The Dedalus Press May Day 1974 by Rachael Hegarty, published by...