by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2013 | FICTION |
Now that the Go Creative! Books are at the editing and formatting phase, I'm back writing fiction again – specifically the books based on the extraordinary triangle at the heart of the love life of the Irish poet WB Yeats. When I was 13 or 14 I was introduced, as all...
by Orna Ross | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Creative presence is the simple act of yielding to, rather than opposing, blocking or running away from, the flow of life. It is inherently linked with the present, the moment we call “Now”. To be present, to summon creative presence, is to drop deeply...
by Orna Ross | Oct 17, 2013 | Go Creative! Podcast |
It's no coincidence that in my novels both Jo and Norah in After The Rising and Mercy in Blue Mercy write their way to resolution. This was my way of paying tribute to the power of writing to heal, transform and liberate. It’s such a miracle, that through marks on a...
by Orna Ross | Oct 14, 2013 | POETRY |
I'm honoured to be reading at the London Irish Centre's Tribute to Seamus Heaney tomorrow evening. I'm thinking of reading “Ballynahinch Lake” and “Postscript”, two poems that I think of as companion pieces and the two that, for me, best...
by Orna Ross | Oct 10, 2013 | POETRY |
My brother, Conor, used them as they should be used, the rings. Hoops of grey rubber to throw at numbered hooks on a board and make the grownups who came to our place for their daily drink call out. Well done! when one caught on. To me, one was a thing to twirl...
by Orna Ross | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized |
I'm taking a short break from blogging the “Go Creative!” book to post this interview with Tom Evans from The Zone Show about my own creative process. In it, Tom and I talk about: how books get started and how to keep writing the seven stages of the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 28, 2013 | POETRY |
I'm working hard on finishing the Go Creative! books and on target to launch in September but poems are no respecters of working schedules. They appear when they like it and a few have surfaced recently, demanding to be written. And then to be published. So here we...
by Orna Ross | May 5, 2013 | FICTION |
Here's a sneak peek at the novel I'm working on now, The Pilgrim Soul. It's the first in a trilogy about love and loss, based around the lives of the poet, WB Yeats, and the mother and daughter he loved, Maud and Iseult Gonne. The time is Christmas Day, 1893 and WB,...
by Orna Ross | Mar 10, 2013 | Uncategorized |
It's Mothering Sunday in the UK, the fourth Sunday in Lent. On this side of the Atlantic, the celebration arises out of a Christian tradition. This is the day each year, Laetare Sunday, when people used to return to their “mother church”, the main church...