{"id":15047,"date":"2015-03-16T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2015-03-16T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:19:06","slug":"writers-block-13th-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Block &#8211; 13th March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Morgan o Reilly talks to Colm Kearns of The RuntZine about his literary open-mic night, endless rain, in Dun Laoghaoire.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He also chats to Stephen Murray about Inspireland, a slam poetry workshop initiative working with teenagers up an down the country. He&#8217;ll be taking a team of 4 young poets to represent Ireland in an international poetry competition in Atlanta, Georgia later this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His guest in studio this week is Cecil Allen, a Northsider whose debut novel, The Actor, chronicles the life and times of actor Jim Brevin, in the lively and often inhospitable Dublin of early 20th century Dublin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And finally, a poem by Jonathan Franzen, Infinite Mess, receives a recitation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6015\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6015','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15047-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"writersblock130315.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 50:36 &#8212; 69.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan o Reilly talks to Colm Kearns of The RuntZine about his literary open-mic night, endless rain, in Dun Laoghaoire. He also chats to Stephen Murray about Inspireland, a slam poetry workshop initiative working with teenagers up an down the country. He&#8217;ll be taking a team of 4 young poets to represent Ireland in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6016\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6016','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=15047-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/writersblock130315.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"writersblock130315.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 50:36 &#8212; 69.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-writers-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}