by Orna Ross | Jun 15, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
(image: Gold detail on the façade of the Folies Bergère cabaret music hall in Paris, by Maurice Pico (1926) ‘Whatever' is a poem about not needing to find or fix ourselves. It speaks to the joy of creating from the ‘undulating being' of an imperfect life...
by Orna Ross | Jun 13, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
For almost two decades, on and off, I’ve been writing about Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats, this couple who were separated by passion and politics, yet who remain forever coupled in the imagination of countless readers. First came A Dance in Time (Penguin, 2008), now...
by Orna Ross | Mar 20, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
This is a post I wish I didn't have to write. As you may already know, my mother was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm. The medics have explained that this lesion will eventually rupture and bleed, ending her life — but they can’t say when. It could...
by Kayleigh Brindley | Mar 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Go Creative! |
Below please find the preview of our next Member-Only Open Studio and your Go Creative! Planners for April 2025. The next Open Studio will run on Thursday April 3rd and I look forward to seeing you live, if possible (replay will issue the following week as an audio)....
by Shanaya Wagh | Feb 21, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
“The Mothers Who Never Forgot:” An Online Talk by Dr. Margaret Ward + Q&A On February 26, 2025, acclaimed historian Dr. Margaret Ward, author of Unmanageable Revolutionaries and Maud Gonne’s biographer, will give a presentation, followed by a Q&A. She'll...
by Orna Ross | Feb 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
Big social media news this week — Orna Ross Publications is moving to Pinterest I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram due to Zuckerberg’s recent elimination of fact-checkers and general Trumpery. (I left X when Elon Musk bought it). It's been a difficult...