by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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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 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...
by Orna Ross | Jun 29, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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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 1, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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