by Orna Ross | Sep 29, 2019 | Poetry |
Today’s poem, Pteronophobia, was inspired by a trip to Matthew’s Yard in Croydon, where my daughter lives. This creative hub is home to the first fully crowd-funded theatre in the UK, a successful art gallery, showcasing the work of emerging local artists and...
by Orna Ross | Sep 22, 2019 | Poetry |
New Poem Reveal: The Rest of Our Being As well as books and other bonuses, my patrons get exclusive poetry hot off the creative presses, a full three months before anyone else gets to read or hear it. This week's poem, The Rest of Our Being, was originally published...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2019 | Poetry |
I recently took a create date in County Wexford, the corner of Ireland where I was born and raised, and the place that I find more creatively inspiring than anywhere else in the world. It gave me this poem about emigration. It was one of those poems that told me...
by Orna Ross | Aug 11, 2019 | Poetry |
In the poetry slot this Sunday: a poem inspired by Alan Watts' wedding vows as read by my friend and publishing colleague Jane Friedman, author mentor, publishing columnist and one of the people I most admire in the writing and publishing business. I actually wrote...
by Orna Ross | Aug 4, 2019 | Poetry |
This week’s inspirational poetry: Font of Silence. When I met The Hub many moons ago, in a pub in Dublin that we used to visit there was an old couple we used to notice, or a couple who seemed old to us then, they were probably younger than we are now. They used to...