by Orna Ross | Aug 30, 2019 | FICTION |
I just dispatched my Life in Fiction Newsletter September 2019. Are you signed up to receive it? For a long time I defined myself as a novelist but for the past couple of years, I've been concentrating on nonfiction and poetry. It feels good to be back in the land of...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2019 | POETRY |
I recently took a create date in County Wexford, the corner of Ireland where I was born and raised, and the place that I find more creatively inspiring than anywhere else in the world. It gave me this poem about emigration. It was one of those poems that told me...
by Orna Ross | Aug 11, 2019 | POETRY |
In the poetry slot this Sunday: a poem inspired by Alan Watts' wedding vows as read by my friend and publishing colleague Jane Friedman, author mentor, publishing columnist and one of the people I most admire in the writing and publishing business. I actually wrote...
by Orna Ross | Aug 4, 2019 | POETRY |
This week’s inspirational poetry: Font of Silence. When I met The Hub many moons ago, in a pub in Dublin that we used to visit there was an old couple we used to notice, or a couple who seemed old to us then, they were probably younger than we are now. They used to...
by Orna Ross | Jul 28, 2019 | POETRY |
My daughter and I took a trip to the Kiss My Genders Exhibition at The Hayward Gallery (more about this in Tuesday’s Create Date) and there was a booth playing the old pride anthem “I Am What I Am”. Daughter started to dance and I managed to capture the moment on...
by Orna Ross | Jul 14, 2019 | POETRY |
Pic by Hu Chen @huchenme Sunday is poetry day on my blog. This week's inspirational poetry: First Time FIRST TIME One day old. As we, with your mother, stare and ache at the soft, open throb of your bald and vulnerable skull translucent at your gossamer brows, your...
by Orna Ross | Apr 14, 2019 | POETRY |
On my Patreon Page, I offer new poems exclusively to my patrons for three months. This three—month exclusivity period is now over for this poem, first published back on Dec 1 2018. So here it is as this week's inspirational poetry: The Long Memoried Sea. The poem...
by Orna Ross | Mar 8, 2019 | FICTION |
I thought you might enjoy this selection from an in-depth interview I've just done with author Regina Joyce Clarke. The full article, which also discusses background, influences, poetry, creative advice and self-publishing can be found on Medium.com. The extract...
by Orna Ross | Feb 24, 2019 | POETRY |
Sunday is poetry day on the blog, and also on my Patreon Page. So welcome to this week's inspirational poetry: Writer At Work, one specially for the writers among you. I wrote this poem some years ago but revised it slightly for Keepers, my latest collection. I hope...
by Orna Ross | Feb 17, 2019 | POETRY |
It's Valentine's week, so how about a love poem? I wrote a version of this poem ten years ago, so it's an anniversary poem too, revived and revised as the days grow ever more golden. I run a Patreon page for my poetry. My most loyal readers–my patrons–...