by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2022 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
I've mapped out and finalized the Gonne-Yeats series running order. It's going to be a seven-book series, with each book focussing on a different aspect of love. This involved a lot more plotting than I usually do, as I had to account for real life dates and doings...
by Orna Ross | Jul 10, 2022 | POETRY |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “The Living Moment”. Enjoy! The Living Moment Whatever is going...
by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2022 | FICTION |
I'm happy to see that the WB Yeats Bedford Park Project is back in post-pandemic action! I was a proud supporter of the crowdfunder that raised money to create this public artwork in Bedford Park, West London, where WB Yeats spent some childhood years, and much of his...
by Orna Ross | Jul 3, 2022 | POETRY |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “What I Want”. Enjoy! What I Want I want to sing like the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 1, 2022 | FICTION |
Ninety-nine years ago, my great-uncle Con (my father's uncle, pictured left), was shot and killed in the Irish Civil War in Wexford. Fifty years later, I grew up in the same small rural village as him, a village called Murrintown, a village that never mentioned the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 26, 2022 | POETRY |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “Fire”. This poem is about our inner fire. The stronger it...
by Orna Ross | Jun 17, 2022 | FICTION |
This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet, WB Yeats, publishing later this year. In this extract, Rosy Cross witnesses the birth of Lily...
by Orna Ross | Jun 12, 2022 | POETRY |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “Dream Cycle”. Enjoy! Dream Cycle breathe breathing into my...
by Orna Ross | Jun 10, 2022 | FICTION |
I've been thinking a lot about hurting and healing lately — as I approach the end of the first draft of my latest novel, where I've *really* made my darlings suffer… (just so the healing feels all the better when it happens, of course!) Also I've just...
by Orna Ross | Jun 5, 2022 | POETRY |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received the most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “Breakthrough”. Enjoy! Breakthrough Whenever you’re ’re feeling...