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–...
by Orna Ross | Feb 15, 2019 | Fiction |
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by a working-class Irish Parisienne, Rosie. Iseult Gonne has been dispatched to London by her mother, Maud Gonne, to get her longtime friend and one-time suitor, WB...
by Orna Ross | Feb 12, 2019 | Poetry |
How does a creative entrepreneur balance passion and profit? Conventional business holds that putting emphasis on creativity and passion, mission and purpose is so many businesses fail. It suggests that those who think they can make a living doing what they love need...
by Orna Ross | Feb 10, 2019 | Poetry |
Our online Open Mic is Tuesday Next at 8pm. More details and register here. Today, I'll be Open Mic-ing too but at a live Open Mic event with Spoken Word London. This group is now very popular. It's one of the most egalitarian groups in London as all poets get five...
by Orna Ross | Feb 8, 2019 | Fiction, Go Creative! |
Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking and I'm at work on Book 2 of my Yeats trilogy, Dancing in the Wind (while continuing the incubation work on the final novel of my Irish trilogy, In the Hour.) That's the fiction fun around here at the moment. So how do you...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2019 | Fiction |
I get a lot of emails asking about In The Hour, the final book in my Irish Trilogy. I'm pleased to say that work has started. It's in the earliest stage and I haven't put down a delivery date yet. I've learned through painful experience not to do that while I'm still...