by Shanaya Wagh | Jan 20, 2025 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, POETRY |
That day of the year when we celebrate love and our loved ones is almost upon us. For centuries, at least since the time of Chaucer, poetry and love have been intertwined, so I've been preparing a range of poetry gifts for Valentine’s Day that your beloved is likely...
by Orna Ross | Jan 15, 2025 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
‘Why don’t you come to the Winter School?” asked Martin Enright, one of the keenest supporters of our Maud Gonne statue project last year. I’ve just booked. It’s the 30th year of the school, hosted by the Sligo Park Hotel who say that, “The Yeats Winter School...
by Shanaya Wagh | Dec 27, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Any future tour guide stopping at a statue of Gonne would have to devote considerable time to do justice to her complexity and robustness. Given the paucity of memorials to women adorning our capital, it would surely be a worthwhile addition. Diarmaid Ferriter says in...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
A quick note to let you know that the blog and The Go Creative! Podcast are taking a break while we work on a website upgrade. Our aim is to make this space a more welcoming hub. A place where you can more easily buy and browse books, enjoy the blog and podcast, and...
by Orna Ross | Oct 21, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, POETRY |
Hello from Ireland! I was full of vim and vigor last time I wrote, but have since been hit by a life wobble, which is why your newsletter is arriving so much later than usual. My 88-year-old mother was taken ill a couple of weeks ago. We managed to keep her out of...
by Orna Ross | Oct 20, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS |
The prompt for this month’s Indie Poetry Please invites you to explore colour in poetry. What colours inspire you? How do they shape your world? Use this prompt to infuse your verse with vibrancy, contrast, or subtlety—looking forward to reading how your words paint a...