by Orna Ross | Oct 14, 2013 | Poetry |
I'm honoured to be reading at the London Irish Centre's Tribute to Seamus Heaney tomorrow evening. I'm thinking of reading “Ballynahinch Lake” and “Postscript”, two poems that I think of as companion pieces and the two that, for me, best...
by Orna Ross | Oct 10, 2013 | Poetry |
My brother, Conor, used them as they should be used, the rings. Hoops of grey rubber to throw at numbered hooks on a board and make the grownups who came to our place for their daily drink call out. Well done! when one caught on. To me, one was a thing to twirl...
by Orna Ross | Jun 28, 2013 | Poetry |
I'm working hard on finishing the Go Creative! books and on target to launch in September but poems are no respecters of working schedules. They appear when they like it and a few have surfaced recently, demanding to be written. And then to be published. So here we...
by Orna Ross | Dec 24, 2012 | Poetry |
I hope you're enjoying a special and happy time over these days. Here is a seasonal poem for you, based on an old Irish mid-winter blessing, that sends you all good wishes.Thank you, as always, for reading — and wishing you and yours the very best for 2013....
by Orna Ross | Dec 23, 2012 | Poetry |
A poem a day is my prescription for a good life. Everyday language is, as Flaubert once said, “a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to — while we long to make music that will melt the stars”. Poetry makes of language that melting kind of...