Clik here to view.
Ethics, Official Images, Artists Ego’s and the Funding Issue
Writers often make their living from festival readings, and sales of their books at events. To gain such access to earn such a living, it begs the question, should an artist compromise the format of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 – Gene Barry Defends Festival and...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
History of Poetry in Fermoy – Gene Barry and the Fermoy International Poetry...
Two years in the running, and following on from many years of voluntary work in the arts, editing reviews, etc, this is Gene Barry’s account of the effort he has put into the making of an arts scene in...
View ArticleScene of the Rhyme welcomes Gene Barry to Tullamore
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...
View ArticleGene Barry in Tullamore – Writers Past, and Loved ones past on, remembered at...
Gene Barry headed the bill at the September Scene of the Rhyme in Joe Lees Bar in Tullamore, which as usual featured the Tullamore Rhymers, with Ken Hume, Cormac Lally, Richard Brennan and yours truly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 Siobhan English Horse Fair Calender, Tara Calling book, and Blackwater...
From a calender of horses, to an anthology on the passing of a writer, and a book to save Tara, the writings of Tomás Ó Cárthaigh are cropping up all over the place, be that a good thing or not… read...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Buy the Book! “The Day the Mirror Called” from Blackwater Poetry Group and...
“The Day the Mirror Called” the new anthology of poetry from Blackwater Poetry Group, published by Rebel Poetry and edited by Gene Barry. It will show up as John W Sexton Workshop in Paypal – this is...
View Article
