Novels, Poetry & Creativism
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After the success of my book trailer for A LIfe Before, I’m now putting together another, this time for Blue Mercy. Here’s the audio, as scripted by Arth of BookBarns.
Host Orna Ross delves into the first of four Cardinal Creative Virtues: Commitment. Discover the pivotal role creative commitment plays … Read more
Yay! “Circle of Life” is a winner again, this time it’s a BookFest Book Gold Award for “exceptional literary achievement”. … Read more
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In Episode 2 of her new Go Creative! podcast, Orna Ross dives more deeply into the mind state that induces creative flow—what she calls the create-state, a chosen way of understanding and processing life. And outlines the difference between being creative (a quality shared by all human beings) and going creative (a mind-state consciously chosen by some).
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This is the first update about the campaign to see a monumental statue of Maud Gonne in O’Connell St, Dublin … Read more
In this first episode of the Go Creatiive! Podcast, novelist and poet Orna Ross introduces herself as a creative and creativist, and explains what to expect from her new solo podcast, for authors, artists and everyone.
Thinking of Easter, and of Eostre –the old goddess of spring and fertility who gave the celebration her name–along came another spring poem. I’ve called it “April in England” and to leave this one open to everyone.
(Sorry patrons, but I’ll have a new exclusive for you next week). Enjoy, all. And happy Easter. It’s my favorite time of the year, and this year it coincides with my birthday.
As they say in Ireland, Beannachtaí na Cásca ort! (May the blessings of Easter be on you).
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Thank you for attending my St Patrick’s Day talk “More Than A Muse: Maud Gonne and the Poetry of WB Yeats” at Kino-Teatr, St Leonards on Sea
Maud Gonne was a formidable activist and generous philanthropist, whose feminism and nationalism altered the course of Irish history, but she is still best known as the muse of the first Irish nobel laureate for literature, the great poet WB Yeats. This post is about some of the poems she inspired.
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It’s Mother’s Day… time for a poem. I’ve actually just come back from a trip to Ireland which has prompted … Read more