by Orna Ross | Apr 1, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, Go Creative! Podcast |
In this first episode of the Go Creatiive! Podcast, novelist and poet Orna Ross introduces herself as a creative and creativist, and explains what to expect from her new solo podcast, for authors, artists and everyone. Read the Transcript to Go Creative! Podcast #1:...
by Orna Ross | Mar 31, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
Thinking of Easter, and of Eostre –the old goddess of spring and fertility who gave the celebration her name–along came another spring poem. I've called it “April in England” and to leave this one open to everyone. (Sorry patrons, but I'll have a new...
by Orna Ross | Mar 22, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Thank you to everyone who attended my St Patrick's Day talk at the Kino-Teatr St Leonards on Sea on Sunday last: More Than A Muse: Maud Gonne and the Poetry of WB Yeats. There's nothing I love more than delving into my obsession with the entwined lives and works of...
by Orna Ross | Mar 10, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
It's Mother's Day… time for a poem. I've actually just come back from a trip to Ireland which has prompted a long poem about my mother and what she's facing at the moment. I'll release that one, privately for patrons, next week. For today, here's a poem for...
by Orna Ross | Mar 8, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION |
Over the next few months, I'll be doing a series of events to launch my novel series about the great activist and poet, Maud Gonne, and the poet she inspired, WB Yeats. I'm starting out at home–my new home of St Leonards on Sea, that is–with a St Patricks...
by Orna Ross | Mar 7, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Tomorrow is International Women's Day and I'll be using it to write to Minister for Media in Ireland about the need for a statue of Maud Gonne in Dublin. I came through Dublin today, on my way home from an unexpected visit to Ireland, and thought I’d use the...