by Orna Ross | May 23, 2021 | POETRY |
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Then, each Sunday here on the blog, I post the poem that has got the most Insta likes. If you’re on Instagram, let’s follow each other. You’ll find my account Orna Ross.poetry here....
by Orna Ross | May 21, 2021 | FICTION |
Willie Yeats was not the only poet to be attracted to Iseult Gonne. His young secretary, Ezra Pound, though married, also set about winning her favour and in the same way–through their shared love of books and writing. This is another snippet from my work in...
by Orna Ross | May 18, 2021 | FICTION |
Some fabulous unpublished photographs of Maud Gonne have appeared in a new Irish documentary on TG4, Scéalta Grá na hÉireann, including a picture she carried around with her all her life of her son Georges, who died aged two. (And whom she attempted to reincarnate in...
by Orna Ross | May 17, 2021 | FICTION |
I'm interested in these thoughts of Declan Foley, Secretary of The Yeats Society of Victoria, Australia, and a native of Sligo on the proposal by Sligo county council to establish a Yeats Interpretive Centre there. “Slowly but surely is the appropriate manner to...
by Orna Ross | May 16, 2021 | POETRY |
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Then, each Sunday here on the blog, I post the poem that has got the most Insta likes. If you’re on Instagram, let’s follow each other. You’ll find my account Orna Ross.poetry here....
by Orna Ross | May 14, 2021 | FICTION |
Willie Yeats was not the only poet to be attracted to Iseult Gonne. His young secretary, Ezra Pound, though married, also set about winning her favour and in the same way–through their shared love of books and writing. This is another extract from my work in...
by Orna Ross | May 13, 2021 | FICTION |
A community group led by Irish poet Cahal Dallat, The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project, has commissioned a sculpture inspired by Yeats. It will be installed near the home he lived in with his parents, two sisters and brother, as a child—the background for lots of the...
by Orna Ross | May 9, 2021 | POETRY |
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Then, each Sunday here on the blog, I post the poem that has got the most Insta likes. If you’re on Instagram, let’s follow each other. You’ll find my account Orna Ross.poetry here....
by Orna Ross | May 7, 2021 | FICTION |
This is a snippet from my current work in progress, Dancing in the Wind. This section centers on the friendship between Iseult Gonne and the poet, editor and mentor, Ezra Pound. CLICK THE “SIGN UP” BUTTON to become a fiction patron and help shape this...
by Orna Ross | May 2, 2021 | POETRY |
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Then, each Sunday here on the blog, I post the poem that has got the most Insta likes. If you’re on Instagram, let’s follow each other. You’ll find my account Orna Ross.poetry here....