by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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by Orna Ross | Jul 21, 2025 | Go Creative! |
If you’ve felt your creative attention fray under the weight of today’s headlines, you’re not alone. Upheaval is often the messy prelude to renewal, part of the creative process, but how do we stay focused on what we want to create when everything feels like it’s...
by Orna Ross | Jul 18, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
For decades, W. B. Yeats fashioned his poetry around the radiant, insurgent figure of Maud Gonne but in the mid-1910s, Yeats’s tireless quest for female inspiration slid to Gonne's daughter, Iseult. Book-loving and unblemished by age, or Ireland’s gun-smoke, Iseult...
by Orna Ross | Jul 16, 2025 | Go Creative! |
THE CREATIVIST MANIFESTO: Conscious Creation for Personal and Planetary Flourishing Draft v0.1 – compiled July 16th 2025 Creativism is drafted, not decreed. You can shape Version 1.0 by commenting on this document (Write to me using the contact form or at info [at]...
by Orna Ross | Jul 13, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
Today's poem is based on a passage from Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, which I'm reading again after many years. Yes, that one that begins, ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of times'… Set in London & Paris around the French Revolution the...