by Orna Ross | Jan 10, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
Happy New Year to You All! I hope you had a lovely festive time. Since coming back, I've been knee-deep in boxes, with my trusty supporters, Laura Park and Alina Ion, putting together creative planning packs for authors. You may remember that in November I ran a...
by Orna Ross | Jan 1, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
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by Orna Ross | Nov 10, 2023 | - NON-PATRON 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 29, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the London Irish Literary Society's “Poetry as Commemoration” event at the stunning Fitzrovia Chapel. Poetry as Commemoration invited communities to turn to poetry as a mode of understanding and expressing...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2023 | - NON-PATRON 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 | 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...