by Orna Ross | Jan 28, 2015 | The Rest |
So… if you live in London, please mark your calendar. Our Yeats event (for #Yeats2015) is set for the 1st of April. ‘I Am Of Ireland', an evening of poetry and song, will explore what it is to be Irish, in these (we hope!) post-nationalist days. And...
by Orna Ross | May 5, 2014 | Poetry |
Another video, this time reading two poems — “Halo” & “Long Light” — at The Alliance of Independent Authors's Indie Author Fringe Fest. See below for the text of the poems. HALO My brother, Conor, used them as they should be used,...
by Orna Ross | Oct 17, 2013 | The Rest |
It's no coincidence that in my novels both Jo and Norah in After The Rising and Mercy in Blue Mercy write their way to resolution. This was my way of paying tribute to the power of writing to heal, transform and liberate. It’s such a miracle, that through marks on a...
by Orna Ross | Oct 14, 2013 | Poetry |
I'm honoured to be reading at the London Irish Centre's Tribute to Seamus Heaney tomorrow evening. I'm thinking of reading “Ballynahinch Lake” and “Postscript”, two poems that I think of as companion pieces and the two that, for me, best...