Patrick Cotter is an Irish poet based in Cork city.
He is currently the artistic director of the Munster Literature Centre.
[1] Cotter studied at University College Cork.
In 1984 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy New Irish Writing prize, and four years later, was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.
In 2013, he received the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry for the poem, "Madra".