by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Do It is an extract from After The Rising, my first novel and the first book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has left Ireland for London and is drinking too much and achieving too little. Something has to give, and in this extract it does. I’m in...
by Orna Ross | Nov 16, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Be Yourself is an extract from Below The Fall, the second book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has ended up in San Francisco, by way of London and hasn't been home in ten years. She has quite drinking and friends, job, lifestyle have all been...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2018 | Fiction |
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet WB Yeats, Maud Gonne has decided to marry another. In this extract, she breaks the news to her daughter Iseult, whom she has placed in a convent so she can...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2018 | Poetry |
Do you value poetry and its power to make positive change? Poetry Patrons: People Power Poets used to rely on elites–kings and queens, lords and ladies, tribal leaders and arts councils–to support their work. Only the well-to-do could afford the luxury of...
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....