by Orna Ross | Nov 15, 2019 | Fiction |
I'm thinking of opening Dancing in the Wind with one of Maud Gonne's fiery political speeches. But my question is: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a novel? The question is addressed more to those who haven't read Book One, Her Secret...
by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2019 | Poetry |
I am putting together a collection called Dark Night: Poems for Hard Times and this month's exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Passing On, comes from there. It's a bereavement poem called “Passing On”. It's exclusively available to patrons from today for...
by Orna Ross | Oct 28, 2019 | Poetry |
Allowing Now, my new book of mindfulness poetry is out. I have a special interest in mindfulness poetry for creatives and if you'd like to dissolve creative block and foster creative flow, I’d love you to buy it. Yes, that helps me. The book is climbing the Amazon...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2019 | Poetry |
The trees in London are spectacular at the moment. This particular beauty, its dazzling shade of yellow, gave me a new poem: Tree Alert. I wrote it too late to include in my book of mindfulness poems, published yesterday, but it would have fitted nicely in there. If...
by Orna Ross | Oct 25, 2019 | Fiction |
I have done some shuffling on the fiction front and I'll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here with weekly extracts in the Friday Fiction slot. I’ve already written this story as a film script, now as a novel. Actually two more...
by Orna Ross | Oct 22, 2019 | Poetry |
Practicing mindfulness, though they would never have called it that, is something that poets have always done. And poetry readers too. Reading mindfulness poetry requires as much creative attention and presence as writing it. I’d been writing for almost a decade...
by Orna Ross | Oct 13, 2019 | Poetry |
My new inspirational poetry book, Allowing Now, which launches on the 25th of October, is a selection of mindfulness poetry. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” Alexander Pope said in his great poem about poetry writing and publishing back in 1711. I’m no...
by Orna Ross | Oct 11, 2019 | Fiction |
Below is the opening of “In The Hour”, my next novel. It is the third book in my Irish Trilogy. For more details on the first two books, After The Rising and Before the Fall, see below. If you ever visit Wexford town and travel along the quays from the...
by Orna Ross | Oct 6, 2019 | Poetry |
Would you like a free poetry book? I’ve just changed my offering to poetry subscribers to my website. Sign up for a free poetry book here. I read and write all kinds of poems but I love most the genre called “Inspirational”. My brand of inspirational poetry is not...
by Orna Ross | Oct 1, 2019 | Poetry |
This is a guide to poetry pamphlet competitions for indie poets. Some allow entrants from international poets; others are limited by territory. Please check the rules of the individual competitions. UK Unpublished Poetry Pamphlet Competitions: Mslexia...