by Orna Ross | May 15, 2018 | Poetry |
People power is rocking poetry, taking it out into the streets and pubs and festivals and providing a new kind of patronage for poets. In the past, only wealthy benefactors could afford to support poets and under that system, the poet had to commemorate the patron's...
by Orna Ross | Mar 22, 2018 | Go Creative! |
What Is A Creativepreneur? Creativepreneur is a relatively new job designation, unheard of before the 1990s, and only really taking off with the widespread adoption of smartphones in the past decade. A creativepreneur builds a businesses around a personal mission,...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Queen of Queens. My mother's name is Brigid, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. And today is Brigid's day, one of the most important days of the year. Imbolc in Gaelic, after the Celtic tradition: the first...
by Orna Ross | Jan 23, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Setting up and running a successful creative enterprise like an author business, is challenging, for lots of reasons. One reason is that we must balance the needs of three kinds of work: producing, processing and positioning–often without knowing that's what we...
by Orna Ross | Jan 9, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Home, a poem inspired by the recent storms. I'm inspired by creativity in all corners of the world but especially in nature, most especially London parks, the woods and beaches of East Sussex and, of course, Ireland. You'll find lots...
by Orna Ross | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry |
One of the things I've been noticing about Insight Timer App is the popularity of its meditations for sleep. And there is a raft of research showing how important good sleep is for creative performance. (More on this soon). So yes, we aim to go to bed when we feel...
by Orna Ross | Sep 14, 2017 | Poetry |
Longer than forever ago lived a people whom we, squinting back through thickets of time, like to call The Celts. It's said they worshipped trees, as ancient people widely did, as any soulful person always must, and where I come from, (an island off an island off the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 3, 2017 | Fiction |
The first chapter of After The Rising 1995 The thick double door beneath the sign – Parle’s Bar & Grocery – is shut. A For Sale board juts from the side wall, with a Sale Agreed banner across it. The blinds are down, as if the house, too, has closed its eyes and died....
by Orna Ross | Aug 31, 2017 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Circle of Life. I'm inspired by creativity in all corners of the world but especially in nature, most especially London parks, the woods and beaches of East Sussex and, of course, Ireland. You'll find lots of poetry here on the blog...
by Orna Ross | Aug 27, 2017 | The Rest |
Her Secret Rose is about the famous love triangle between the Irish poet WB Yeats, his muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter, Iseult. The extract below is doubly fictionalized, being a summary in my novel of events Yeats related in one of his own short stories The Secret...