Rebecca Harte 00:00 – 01:27 Patrick Cotter 01:27 – 05:45
Leanne O’Sullivan 05:45 – 11:08
“Morning Poem” 11:08 – 12:33
“David Copperfield” 12:33 – 13:50
“Note” 13:50 – 16:35
The inaugural winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award was A Quarter of an Hour by Leanne O’Sullivan, published by Bloodaxe Books. The award is for the best original collection published in the previous calendar year by a poet living in Ireland. Over forty titles were in contention. The award includes a €2000 cash prize and is sponsored by the renowned Farmgate Café in the English Market, Cork, and is an initiative of the Munster Literature Centre. This event took place in the Farmgate Café, opening the Cork International Poetry Festival 2019.
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Leanne O’Sullivan is from the Beara Peninsula in West Cork and was educated at UCC. Her acclaimed first collection, Waiting for my Clothes, was published by Bloodaxe in 2004. Three more collections, also from Bloodaxe, have appeared since – Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009), The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018).
Music: Evening Fall (Harp) Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Video production: James O'Leary
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