by Orna Ross | Jan 19, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
The launch of my epic Gonne-Yeats series is getting close. Seven years work is about to come together, with Book One: A Life Before, launching on Kickstarter in summer 2024. This is the coming-of-age tale that tells the story of two core characters, the revolutionary...
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2023 | - MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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by Orna Ross | Nov 10, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
One of the things I most admire about WB Yeats is the care he took with his books, not just in their writing —- he was an avid reviser and improver -—but in their design and presentation. And in how he represented his own ideas and intentions to potential readers...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
As most of you know, I'm in the middle of writing my biggest project EVER–a seven-book biographical fiction series, based around the true-life stories of two giants of Irish history, the activist Maud Gonne and the poet WB Yeats. These two, together with Maud's...
by Orna Ross | Oct 6, 2023 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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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...