by Orna Ross | Apr 24, 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 Ring”. Enjoy! The Ring From the seventeenth-century church...
by Orna Ross | Apr 20, 2022 | Go Creative! Podcast |
As yesterday's poem suggested, creativity is everywhere, touching every human life, every minute of every day. We feel this in its inner manifestions: intuitions, nudges, insights, longings, feelings and we see, taste, touch, hear and smell it in its outer...
by Orna Ross | Apr 19, 2022 | POETRY |
It's time to submit your poems for a chance to feature in Indie Poetry Please! My Indie Poetry Please! feature on Instagram aims to introduce poetry lovers to exciting and inspiring indie poets and their work. There have been some changes to this program. Here's how...
by Orna Ross | Apr 17, 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, “Where Are You?”. Enjoy! Where Are You? Where are you? The...
by Orna Ross | Apr 15, 2022 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
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. I’m aiming to have the novel out in June 2022. This extract introduces Maud Gonne and...
by Orna Ross | Apr 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, “Good Morning”. Enjoy! Good Morning The light of the sun is...
by Orna Ross | Mar 29, 2022 | POETRY |
I’m delighted to announce that Allowing Now has won Gold Award at the Literary Titan Book Awards and honored at the kind comments of the judges who praise the collection of mindfulness poetry as a “beautifully written collection” that is “heartfelt,...
by Orna Ross | Mar 27, 2022 | POETRY |
This Sunday's poem of the week was published on Instagram on St Patrick's Day (which I celebrated in very non-Irish fashion in Maspalomas, a touristy town on the island of Grand Canaria). It's my version of the old Irish poem known today as “St Patrick's Breastplate”...
by Orna Ross | Mar 18, 2022 | FICTION |
Below is the beginning of a short story about a famous Irish love story, the story of Líadan and Cuirithir (pronounced phonetically in English Leeadawn and Coorihir). One of the most heartrending poems in the ancient Irish annals is “Comhrach Líadaine agas...
by Orna Ross | Mar 14, 2022 | GO CREATIVE! |
I'm taking a bit of a blog break from now until Sunday 27th March 2022–heading off to the Canary Islands for some much-needed rest and relaxation. And posting is likely to be a bit sporadic after that, as we are launching ALLi's 10th-anniversary celebrations at...