by Orna Ross | Nov 10, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
One of the things I most admire about WB Yeats is the care he took with his books, not just in their writing —- he was an avid reviser and improver -—but in their design and presentation. And in how he represented his own ideas and intentions to potential readers...
by Orna Ross | Oct 29, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the London Irish Literary Society's “Poetry as Commemoration” event at the stunning Fitzrovia Chapel. Poetry as Commemoration invited communities to turn to poetry as a mode of understanding and expressing...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
As most of you know, I'm in the middle of writing my biggest project EVER–a seven-book biographical fiction series, based around the true-life stories of two giants of Irish history, the activist Maud Gonne and the poet WB Yeats. These two, together with Maud's...
by Orna Ross | Oct 15, 2023 | - PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
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by Orna Ross | Oct 8, 2023 | POETRY |
The term “woodstock”, which is old English in origin, once meant a dwelling or a clearing in the woods. Which is where we started this overview of old Irish poetry, with The Hermit's Song. Today, it has come to mean a large, impromptu gathering, thanks to...
by Orna Ross | Oct 6, 2023 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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by Orna Ross | Oct 1, 2023 | - PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
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by Orna Ross | Sep 29, 2023 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
As I have been exploring WB Yeats as a very young man, a list of the poems he first published would have been useful to me, so I'm reproducing it here, in case it might be helpful to another. These first poems, while of course less celebrated than his later works, and...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2023 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, POETRY |
As my patrons know, old and medieval Irish poetry is completely captivating me at the moment. I've been working for a while now on a series of poems inspired by these early writers and creating a book that, for the moment I'm calling, “My Irish Poems”. I'm...
by Orna Ross | Sep 22, 2023 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
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