by Orna Ross | Dec 12, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Scribe in the Wood” Continuing my series of adapted old Irish poems. This one was developed from a quatrain in Kuno Meyer’s book, Ancient Irish Poetry. It uses a twist on what in traditional Irish poetry...
by Orna Ross | Dec 5, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Hermit's Song” Early Gaelic (a.k.a. Old Irish) is the form of Gaelic used in Ireland and parts of Scotland from roughly 600–900 AD. A 9th century manuscript of The Hermit's Song in old Irish was...
by Orna Ross | Nov 28, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” Here we have it, an urn’s future and present and past a picture performance in three parts in a well-funded gallery of the arts. 1. Ai Wei Wei holds the urn Between the hands of...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2021 | Go Creative! |
We're back! Sorry it all took a little longer than expected. No matter how “realistic” I try to be, my deadlines for large projects are invariably, like Samuel Johnson's said of remarriage, the triumph of hope over experience. But here we are. We're still...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2021 | Go Creative! |
I am taking a blog break as I’m working on a new website that will launch here in November, together with a new podcast. The theme of website, blog and podcast will be “Exploring Histories & Mysteries”, with a closer focus on my fiction and poetry. I hope it...
by Orna Ross | Sep 21, 2021 | Fiction |
By request, our next Go Creative! workshop, on the 8th of October, will be about Finding Your Flow: Overcoming Resistance and Block. If one part of you is giving another part of you a hard time (beating yourself up for being lazy, procrastinating, or ineffective, for...
by Orna Ross | Sep 19, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Milky Way” Her feet in the early morning light are whiter than milk. Bones visible. Wrinkles, veins, a light dusting of hair on shin. Fearful feet, now. Thin, papery skin. Staying in. Swift feet, feet that...
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2021 | Go Creative! |
Do you write about environmental, eco, planetary themes… or follow a writer who does? Heads up about the Orna Ross Green Stories Novel Prize. I'm delighted to sponsor this prize, organized by Denise Baden at Southampton University, with a mission to create a...
by Orna Ross | Sep 12, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Whatever” Whatever you do, my dear maker, don’t go looking for yourself, or seeking to improve. You are not lost to be found, and nothing whatever in you needs to be fixed. You, my beauty, are what you are...
by Orna Ross | Sep 11, 2021 | Fiction |
The After the Rising & Before the Fall blog tour is almost over Since the start of September, bloggers have been reviewing and commenting on the centenary edition of this two-books-in-one set. Such lovely reviews. You can buy the book directly from me here. Here's the...