by Orna Ross | Oct 8, 2023 | POETRY |
The term “woodstock”, which is old English in origin, once meant a dwelling or a clearing in the woods. Which is where we started this overview of old Irish poetry, with The Hermit's Song. Today, it has come to mean a large, impromptu gathering, thanks to...
by Orna Ross | Oct 6, 2023 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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by Orna Ross | Oct 1, 2023 | - PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
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by Orna Ross | Sep 29, 2023 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
As I have been exploring WB Yeats as a very young man, a list of the poems he first published would have been useful to me, so I'm reproducing it here, in case it might be helpful to another. These first poems, while of course less celebrated than his later works, and...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
As my patrons know, old and medieval Irish poetry is completely captivating me at the moment. I've been working for a while now on a series of poems inspired by these early writers and creating a book that, for the moment I'm calling, “My Irish Poems”. I'm...