by Orna Ross | Sep 1, 2018 | Poetry |
Like inspirational poetry? On the first day of each month, I release a new inspirational poem exclusively for my patrons on Patreon. This month's poem is called “The Next Birth”. It's a love poem that begins with couple-love and moves to universal love....
by Orna Ross | Aug 26, 2018 | Poetry |
Here, evening mist has nothing to hold but the trees. Autumn has not yet plucked the last of the leaves. For me, it’s that time of day, that time of year, when poems come. Oh, that ache to be here, to be heard. Surely, soon. You relieve it with love, always did. My...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2018 | Fiction |
For the past year or so, I have been adapting a novel to script. Every Friday morning I meet my son who works in film and together we do some screenwriting and the usual sort of creative support stuff that creatives need. He's helped me to shape the second part of my...
by Orna Ross | Aug 19, 2018 | Poetry |
“‘Thou Shalt Not’ soon fades but ‘Once Upon A Time’ goes on forever.” ~ Philip Pullman. Morning, May in England, Ascot Priory wood. In a clearing by the pathway, a branch invites a bow. I lay my forehead on its bark, its skin on mine is cool with rain. These...
by Orna Ross | Aug 4, 2018 | Fiction |
I always have different projects at different stages of development. I'm currently at the earliest possible stage of the final part of my Irish trilogy, In The Hour. Here's all I know so far and I'll keep you posted as more unfolds. SETTING: Like the first two books...
by Orna Ross | Jul 31, 2018 | Poetry |
Like inspirational poetry? On the first day of each month, I release a new poem exclusively for my patrons on Patreon. This month's poem is called “Blood Ocean” and is set around a family table in a garden. It's about our human and earth ancestors who sit...
by Orna Ross | Jul 29, 2018 | Poetry |
Today's Sunday Inspirational Poetry is: Placenta Look to the tree, how it remembers the clay that once pressed, loam-loving, round its kernel through which it roamed out, a tender and unseeing shoot, groping towards the light of day and the airy, spangled light of...
by Orna Ross | Jul 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Today's Sunday Sample is a poem from a collection I'm putting together of bittersweet love poetry: Leaves I'll launch the collection next year, Valentine's Day. If you'd like me to write a poem for you, write telling me about a love in your life and I'll see if...
by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2018 | Poetry |
Promise me, that when the leaves turn in the wind or in the falling, you’ll remember. And smile at the day we spent under the green ocean dome that welled above, each leaf-shake a flutter held, a quark of forest time shifting and regrouping, but yet the whole —the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 12, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Font Publications is my publishing imprint. Not all indie authors have an imprint though many do, for all sorts of reasons. Mine are quite personal. Imprints began in trade publishing for trade reasons. The larger publishing companies have multiple imprints, using the...