{"id":752,"date":"2014-09-25T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2014-09-25T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:58:48","slug":"scene-of-the-rhyme-welcomes-gene-barry-to-tullamore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/scene-of-the-rhyme-welcomes-gene-barry-to-tullamore\/","title":{"rendered":"Scene of the Rhyme welcomes Gene Barry to Tullamore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scene of the Rhyme features Blackwater Poets founder Gene Barry<\/a> to Tullamore. Gene is the founder of the Fermoy International Poetry Festival, and has done Trojan work in bringing poetry “in from the cold” so to speak in the Cork County and area.<\/p>\n

To spite skullduggery of epic proportions, Gene carries on, and it is with great pleasure we welcome him to Tullamore to the Scene of the Rhyme tonight, along with other guests and the Tullamore Rhymers Club, under the able MC’ing of Cormac Lally, as per usual!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scene of the Rhyme features Blackwater Poets founder Gene Barry to Tullamore. Gene is the founder of the Fermoy International Poetry Festival, and has done Trojan work in bringing poetry “in from the cold” so to speak in the Cork County and area. To spite skullduggery of epic proportions, Gene …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[1000,278,277,317,254],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-events-and-readings","tag-blackwater-poets","tag-fermoy-international-poetry-festival","tag-gene-barry","tag-scene-of-the-rhyme","tag-tullamore-rhymers-club","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-c8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":203,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/castlepallooza-rocked-in-the-rain-by-the-tullamore-rhymers-failing-to-make-fermoy\/","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"CastlePallooza Rocked in the Rain By the Tullamore Rhymers – Failing to Make Fermoy","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd August 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It is with regret due to work commitments we failed to make the Fermoy International Poetry Festival and the Poetry Bus ran by organiser Gene Barry, but two local events we did get to make were the monthly Scene of the Rhyme in Joe Lees in Tullamore, and of course\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Saul Philblin Bowman reading at Scene of the Rhyme","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/fermoy-international-poetry-festival-2014-gene-barry-defends-festival-and-reputation-decent-poets-vs-cute-hoors-and-the-poetry-cliques-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":1},"title":"Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 – Gene Barry Defends Festival and Reputation – Decent Poets vs Cute Hoors and the Poetry Cliques – Blog","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Gene Barry, of the Blackwater Poets, formerly the Elbow Lane poets, started the Fermoy International Poetry Festival. To which others tagged along, as it benefited them, taking advantage of the fruits of his efforts, until everything got official. 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