by Orna Ross | Mar 18, 2015 | Fiction |
As regular readers know, Yeats has taken over this blog a bit this year (#Yeats2015), with my novel about his relationship with Maud Gonne launching in the summer and various fun and frolics happening here in London and in Ireland. I was thrilled to hear from Judith...
by Orna Ross | Mar 12, 2015 | Fiction |
We’ll begin with the day WB immortalized in his memoirs, when she came calling to his house with her complexion like the blossom of apples, and her lineaments of the highest beauty, and her stature so great that she seemed to him to be of divine race. Maud always...
by Orna Ross | Jan 11, 2015 | Fiction |
I promised details last time of the projects I'm going to run this year to celebrate #Yeats2015. 1. First up: I am gathering five people who are interested in attending the Yeats Summer School in Sligo in July/August; we'll have a private dinner there and talk Yeats...
by Orna Ross | Nov 24, 2014 | Fiction |
The Irish Nobel-Laureate poet Willie Yeats was 23 years old in 1889, when Maud Gonne came calling to his house and, as he later put it, “the troubling of his life” began. Six feet tall, elegantly beautiful and passionately political, this British heiress turned...
by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2014 | Fiction |
The more I circle the life and work of WB Yeats, the more I'm drawn to wondering about his mother, Susan Yeats, nee Pollexfen. In trying to understand her influence, at first I felt hampered by how little we know about her. As I read through the letters and...
by Orna Ross | Oct 10, 2014 | Fiction |
I've been working for some years on a trilogy about the Irish poet WB Yeats — and I'll be picking it back up shortly to finish off, (just as soon as I publish How To Create Anything and Go Creative!) I'm planning a very special edition (500 copies) of the first...