by Orna Ross | Jan 1, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
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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 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 | Jul 11, 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 2, 2025 | Go Creative! |
In this episode of the GoCreative! podcast, I explore the ancient and immediate dance between being and becoming. Drawing on inspiration from Irish poet Eavan Boland, I look at what's now and what's next, the pause and the pulse of moment and momentum. And what the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 29, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
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by Orna Ross | Jun 20, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
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by Orna Ross | Jun 18, 2025 | Go Creative! |
Does “getting more done” ever leave you feeling less alive… and with things left undone? In this episode we look into why the real engine of creative success is presence, not productivity—and I share my simple monthly planning program to keep the...
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...