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Orna Ross
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PUBLISHED: Nov.15.2011

Ten Thoughts About Love

An artist ignores what he is creating in his life; a woman survives genocide and its aftermath; an Irish wedding blessing is reworked: these poems from an acclaimed and bestselling novelist aim straight at the heart of what it is to know love. Orna Ross's poems are always elegant, simple, powerful and profound.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.04.2010

Lovers' Hollow

Jo Devereux returns home from California to Mucknamore, the small Irish village she fled 20 years before, and falls straight into the arms of Rory O’Donovan, the only man she ever truly loved, now married. Their teenage love affair was destroyed by the conflict between their families, which dated back to some mysterious incident in the Irish Civil War of 1923, when Rory's uncle...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.10.2009

A Dance in Time

Writer and mother Izzy Mulcahy is just about the last person anyone could imagine committing murder. Yet, when she is arrested for killing her ailing father, nobody doubts but that she did it. Why? And how does it connect to the story with she has been so long obsessed — the love triangle between the poet WB Yeats, his muse the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne and her...

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Orna's Latest Blogs

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Jan.23.2012 - 1:13 pm

Five Things I Want to Do

I’ve been writing a lot about creative intentions and thinking about my own for 2012. Now that the new year is settling in, I’d like to share some of what I’ll be up to over the...

Jun.08.2011 - 10:44 am

Michael Cunningham's mother & Virginia Woolf

My mother was a homemaker, the sort of woman [Virginia] Woolf referred to as “the angel of the house”, who, like many such house angels, had given herself over to a life that was...

May.21.2011 - 9:08 pm

What Women Want, What Men Want

Today, we need to talk about sex. As in gender. The male/female thing. I know, I know. You’re thinking: how does that feed into a series about the intersection of true wants with...

May.08.2011 - 1:40 pm

Moving Through Block

Mental positions like those listed in the previous post can be a real block to going creative. Here’s a simple method to weaken their hold. Every day for 21 days, first thing in...