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Farmgate Café National Poetry Award Entries
55 valid entries have been received for the Farmgate National Poetry Award for the best original collection in English (or translated into English for the first time) published by a poet living on the island of Ireland in the calendar year of 2025. The award is worth €2000. A shortlist will be announced late March / early April and the award presented at the opening of the Cork International Poetry Festival in May. This year’s judges are the poets Ailbhe Darcy, Maya C. Popa and Thomas Dillon Redshaw.
Judges
Ailbhe Darcy is a poet and a critic. Her most recent collection of poetry is Insistence, published by Bloodaxe Books, which won Wales Book of the Year and the Pigott Prize for Poetry in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. In February 2020 she presented Alphabet on BBC Radio 4, a programme about Inger Christensen’s extraordinary poem alfabet and its resonance in the age of climate change, produced by Megan Jones.
Maya C. Popa’s third collection, If You Love That Lady, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in July 2026. Her other collections are Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022) named one of the Guardian’s recent best books of poetry, and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and winner of the North American Book Prize.
Thomas Dillon Redshaw is the founding editor of New Hibernia Review (1996—2006) and the former editor if Eire-Ireland (1974—1995). He is the author of numerous essays on the poetry of John Montague, and on the poetry of Brian Coffey, John F. Deane, James Liddy, Thomas McCarthy, and George Reavey. He has published extensively on Liam Miller’s Dolmen Press, as well as on the Gallery Press. His most recent collections are Ago: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2024) and Heart Walk (Brighthorse Books, 2024).
Entries received
Landfall by Liam Aungier
published by Revival Press
After Party by Dean Browne
published by Picador
Bunting’s Honey by Moya Cannon
published by Carcanet
Catching the missing Beat by Ruth Carr
published by Arlen House
Belfast Twilight by Liam Carson
published by Salmon Poetry
Under the Blue Seraphim by Deirdre Cartmil
published by Arlen House
Seang (Hungering) by Anne Casey
published by Salmon Poetry
The Light Dancing by Cathy Conlon
published by Revival Press
Storm Damage by Catherine Ann Cullen
published by Dedalus press
The Glass Candle by Tim Cuningham
published by Revival Press
Brink by Cian Ferriter
published by Dedalus press
Footfall by Hugh O’Donnell
published by Salmon Poetry
We are an Archipelago by Erin Fornoff
published by Salmon Poetry
The Convent of Mercy by Tom French
published by The Gallery Press
Crowd Work by Sam Furlong
published by MachaPress
Morsels by Susanna Galbraith
published by MachaPress
Time’s Guest by Kevin Graham
published by The Gallery Press
Everything You Always Wanted to Know by Mark Granier
published by Salmon Poetry
Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke
published by The Gallery Press
Tickle by Eithne Hand
published by Salmon Poetry
The Magic Theatre by James Harpur
published by Two Rivers Press
But & Through by Jake Hawkey
published by Picador
Birthmark by Christina Henneman
published by Shearesman
A Bloodless Field by Adeen Henry
published by Salmon Poetry
Father’s Father’s Father by Dane Holt
published by Carcanet
Care by Jennifer Horgan
published by Doire Press
About Blood by John D. Kelly
published by Revival Press
The ethics of Cats by Alice Kinsealla
published by Broken Sleep Books
Pattern Book by Eireann Lorsung
published by Carcanet
Featherweight by Noelle Lynskey
published by Arlen House
Sweeney as a Girl by Jaki MacCarrick
published by Dedalus press
Unbridled Joy by Joan McBreen
published by Salmon Poetry
Plenitude by Thomas McCarthy
published by Carcanet
A la belle etoile by Afric McGlinchey
published by Salmon Poetry
The River Crana by Frank McGuinness
published by The Gallery Press
Blood Atlas by Luke Morgan
published by Arlen House
The Sleep Thief by Stephen Murray
published by Salmon Poetry
Hymn to all the restless girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
published by The Gallery Press
Menagerie by Nuala O’Connor
published by Arlen House
Dancing Around the Handbag by Margaret O’Driscoll
published by Revival Press
A Different Light by Francis O’Hare
published by Arlen House
Savage Acres by Keith Payne
published by Dedalus press
Clockhammer by Paul Perry
published by Doire Press
Ash and Bone by Anne Rath
published by Revival Press
The Small Print of Love by Liam Ryan
published by Revival Press
Neanderthal Boy by Colm Scully
published by Words on the Street
On Being Un/Able to Walk through Walls by D’or Seifer
