The Bord Gais Energy Book Awards celebrate writers and poets from across the nation.
The Listowel Writer's Week Irish Poem of the Year went to Waterford poet Clodagh Beresford Dunne.
This year's @bordgaisenergy Irish Book Award winners 2017 #BGEIBA pic.twitter.com/53xmOK02hS
— An Post Irish Book Awards (@AnPostIBAS) November 28, 2017
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The poem "Seven Sugar Cubes" was inspired by the death of her father in Australia.
Clodagh reveals "I said at the Awards last night that I couldn't believe a time of such great loss and sorrow could be turned into a moment of joy with that Award.
I'm really grateful to God for it."
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PHOTO CREDIT: BGEIirsh Book Awards Twitter
