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 2025 by a poet residing in Ireland. 55 valid entries were received. This year’s judges were the poets Ailbhe Darcy, Maya C. Popa and Thomas Dillon Redshaw. The shortlist in alphabetical order: After Party by Dean Browne (Picador), Convent of Mercy by Tom French (The Gallery Press), Hymn to All the Restless Girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin (The Gallery Press), The Slipping Forecast by Ross Thompson (Dedalus Press), Chic to be Sad by Molly Twomey (The Gallery Press).
Irish Examiner: Dean Browne wins Farmgate Poetry Award
After Party by Dean Browne (Picador)
Dean Browne is an award-winning poet from Co. Tipperary, Ireland. His debut collection After Party is published by Picador and is a Poetry Society Recommendation. Browne received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, won the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it is published by Smith|Doorstop (2022). His poems are widely published internationally, in outlets such as New York Review of Books, Columbia Review, London Magazine, Poetry Review, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, PN Review, Poetry Magazine (Chicago).