by Orna Ross | Dec 12, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Scribe in the Wood” Continuing my series of adapted old Irish poems. This one was developed from a quatrain in Kuno Meyer’s book, Ancient Irish Poetry. It uses a twist on what in traditional Irish poetry...
by Orna Ross | Dec 5, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Hermit's Song” Early Gaelic (a.k.a. Old Irish) is the form of Gaelic used in Ireland and parts of Scotland from roughly 600–900 AD. A 9th century manuscript of The Hermit's Song in old Irish was...
by Orna Ross | Nov 28, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” Here we have it, an urn’s future and present and past a picture performance in three parts in a well-funded gallery of the arts. 1. Ai Wei Wei holds the urn Between the hands of...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2021 | Go Creative! |
We're back! Sorry it all took a little longer than expected. No matter how “realistic” I try to be, my deadlines for large projects are invariably, like Samuel Johnson's said of remarriage, the triumph of hope over experience. But here we are. We're still...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2021 | Go Creative! |
I am taking a blog break as I’m working on a new website that will launch here in November, together with a new podcast. The theme of website, blog and podcast will be “Exploring Histories & Mysteries”, with a closer focus on my fiction and poetry. I hope it...