by Orna Ross | Dec 15, 2013 | The Rest |
The social order is also the topic of the next poem but here gender is the dispossessor. Jesus, like every other human who ever lived was, in the words of the great Adrienne Rich, “of woman born” and Rich's “Translations” speaks of the politics...
by Orna Ross | Dec 13, 2013 | The Rest |
Last Week: Go Creative With… Patti Smith Ten Thoughts on creating from Pamela Travers, author of Mary Poppins. The Unknown — our beautiful Anglo-Saxon word, intimate, reverberant, profound, not so much to be understood as stood under while it rains upon us —...
by Orna Ross | Dec 8, 2013 | The Rest |
Yeats's near contemporary, TS Eliot, also pictures Christmas through the lens of the magi, though his are more human, more physical, occupying a poem full of the mundane details of travel: snow, lack of decent shelter, cursing camel-men, hostile cities and towns,...
by Orna Ross | Dec 3, 2013 | Go Creative! |
So… sat me down with a soya latte around 11, as is my wont, and the browsing material this morning was The Bookseller's “100 Most Influential People in Publishing”. I was enjoying the read when I suddenly found myself nearly spitting out my coffee....
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2013 | Fiction |
The “god-shaped question” is the subject of W.B. Yeats' poem about The Magi, the three men variously called kings or wise men who came to Bethlehem on the night of Jesus’s birth to pay homage to a new saviour. For Yeats, they are trapped forever in that posture of...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2013 | Fiction |
WB Yeats had a connection with many places across the country of Ireland, particularly the counties of Galway, Mayo and Dublin. If you're hoping to go on a trip to visit some of the locations that are linked to his life, click the link to this Google Map for some...
by Orna Ross | Nov 17, 2013 | The Rest |
From now until the Sunday after Christmas, the blog's Sunday poetry slot will be given over to a selection from Poetry for Christmas. This week, Anne Sexton's “Christmas Eve”, takes us into the searing heart of a complex mother-daughter relationship. The...