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Local poet and founder of Fermoy International Poetry Festival, Gene Barry will travel to America this week to take part in a host of St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
He has been invited to read as the guest poet at the pre-St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Austin, Texas this Saturday.
Mr Barry will then headline at Fair Park’s Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas on Monday, March 16. On St Patrick’s Day, he will represent Rebel Poetry, and indeed Fermoy and Cork, when he attends Rebel Poetry’s first overseas book launch.
He will launch Michael Clay’s début collection ‘sonoffred’, which he has edited and printed in Ireland. He will act as MC for the event and read as a guest poet. Finally, on International Poetry Day (Saturday, March 21), he will headline at World Space in Dallas, Texas.
Mr Barry is founder of Fermoy International Poetry Festival and the Blackwater Poetry Group, and runs the publishing house, Rebel Poetry.
As an art therapist using the medium of poetry, Mr Barry has worked in hospitals, primary and secondary schools, Youthreach, with retired people’s groups, AA, asylum seekers and with numerous poetry groups.
He has read in Australia, the US, the Caribbean, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, France and Belgium and as the guest poet at numerous Irish poetry venues.
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