by Orna Ross | Aug 3, 2015 | Fiction
In a few hours time, I'll launch Secret Rose, my special edition two-in-one book tribute to WB Yeats. I'll write soon about how it went and what I said… (I never know all in advance, so much depends on the group and the energy in the room). What I do know: I'll...
by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2015 | Fiction
I've gone back to school! I'm writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, after a very fine lecture, “The Epiphanic Yeats” by Dr Matthew Campbell, Professor of English at the University of York....
by Orna Ross | Jun 24, 2022 | Fiction
Althea Gyles, the artist and writer who designed the cover of WB Yeats's The Secret Rose (which I reproduced on my special edition book back in 2015), has been variously described as: the “genius who invented a symbolic personality for Yeats” (Warwick...
by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2015 | Fiction
“WB Yeats Was An Indie Author” says Orna Ross, Irish Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, launching her new book which combines Yeats’ short story collection with her novel in a special tribute edition for #Yeats2015. 15.7.2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
by Orna Ross | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rest |
I went to see Asif Kapadia's movie Amy on Saturday night, a documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse. The movie is well done, and tells a classic “destructive-creative” story, pretty much what you imagine Amy’s life to have been like, reading between the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 12, 2015 | Fiction
The Secret Rose Hall of Fame I want to thank the wonderful people who supported my crowdfunder project to make, publicise and distribute my special commemorative two-in-one book, in replica of WB Yeats 1897 first edition of The Secret Rose. Friends and patrons, I am...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2015 | The Rest |
On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat's short story collection, The Secret Rose, from the lovely Tanya Collie of Broadford books. This first edition was purchased by a Mr Danny O'Sullivan as part of my crowdfunder...
by Orna Ross | Jul 4, 2015 | Go Creative!
“I am what is called on the Internet a “superfan,” of WB Yeats and one of the things I most love and admire about this poet and teller of tales is the care he took with his books, not just in their writing —- he was an avid reviser and improver -—but in...
by Orna Ross | Jun 27, 2015 | Poetry |
Up beside yon ancient castle, where a knight stands in the hall. crumbling bricks square off a garden, the old chapel, under pall. Crooked graves all moss and lichen, brambled weeds now gate its wall. While the knight, once thought a warden, armour empty, holds the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 5, 2015 | The Rest |
There's a ripe crop of news from the Alliance of Independent Authors over at the ALLi self-publishing blog- take your pick from what's happening in indie world.