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This is the third in a series of poetry pamphlets by a bestselling and acclaimed novelist, a collection of ten poems about ten widely different things, but all circling the theme of daily inspiration and creative presence.
“Ten poems at a time is enough,” says Orna Ross. “Like any mind-altering substance, poetry should be ingested sparingly.”
These are poems you read again and again, touching as they do on all the big themes. This is poetry in the tradition of Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Rumi.
You’ll find poems about love, in its many manifestations. Poems about making art. Poems about life and liberty and the conditions for happiness. Poems about faith, loss, longing and belong and the eternal, ever-available, transformational power of redemption.
These poems are the purest practice of the theories Orna Ross expounds in her “Go Creative!” books.
This is the third in a series of poetry pamphlets by a bestselling and acclaimed novelist, a collection of ten poems about ten widely different things, but all circling the theme of daily inspiration and creative presence.
“Ten poems at a time is enough,” says Orna Ross. “Like any mind-altering substance, poetry should be ingested sparingly.”
These are poems you read again and again, touching as they do on all the big themes. This is poetry in the tradition of Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Rumi.
You’ll find poems about love, in its many manifestations. Poems about making art. Poems about life and liberty and the conditions for happiness. Poems about faith, loss, longing and belong and the eternal, ever-available, transformational power of redemption.
These poems are the purest practice of the theories Orna Ross expounds in her “Go Creative!” books.
44 pages, Paperback
First published December 13, 2013
About the author
Orna Ross
52 books243 followersOrna Ross is an award-winning historical novelist, poet, who also writes creative guidebooks for authors and others.
An international bestseller, she enjoys book sales in 120+ countries worldwide and her awards include the Goethe Historical Fiction Grand Prize Award for fiction, Gold Literary Titan award for poetry, the Romantic Novelists Association's Indie Champion Award, The Writers' Digest's Top Websites for Writers, and The Bookseller's Top 100 people in publishing.
Her novels are multi-layered, historical, cross-generational family dramas, full of mystery and intrigue, and blending Irish and international settings.
Her poetry books are lyrical companions for creative minds.
In 2009, while undergoing breast cancer treatment, Ross coined the term "creativism" to expand the concept of creativity beyond the arts, and encourage the use of creative thinking and tools to improve every aspect of daily life. This led to her Go Creative! Non-fiction series, which explores the theory and practice of creativism, the application of the creative process to everything in life.
What she describes as “the best move of my writing life” followed soon afterwards, when she took her publishing rights back from her publisher, Penguin, in 2011. The experience of self-publishing has made her a passionate advocate for the commercial and creative empowerment of authors.
She founded the award-winning, global non-profit for self-publishing writers, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) in 2012 and the creative development program for writers, Indie Author Lab, run in association with the London Book Fair and Author Nation in 2026.
Indie Author Lab Online runs through her Substack for authors and her new writing appears first on her Substack for Readers.
Browse and buy all her books on her author website: OrnaRoss.com/Books
An international bestseller, she enjoys book sales in 120+ countries worldwide and her awards include the Goethe Historical Fiction Grand Prize Award for fiction, Gold Literary Titan award for poetry, the Romantic Novelists Association's Indie Champion Award, The Writers' Digest's Top Websites for Writers, and The Bookseller's Top 100 people in publishing.
Her novels are multi-layered, historical, cross-generational family dramas, full of mystery and intrigue, and blending Irish and international settings.
Her poetry books are lyrical companions for creative minds.
In 2009, while undergoing breast cancer treatment, Ross coined the term "creativism" to expand the concept of creativity beyond the arts, and encourage the use of creative thinking and tools to improve every aspect of daily life. This led to her Go Creative! Non-fiction series, which explores the theory and practice of creativism, the application of the creative process to everything in life.
What she describes as “the best move of my writing life” followed soon afterwards, when she took her publishing rights back from her publisher, Penguin, in 2011. The experience of self-publishing has made her a passionate advocate for the commercial and creative empowerment of authors.
She founded the award-winning, global non-profit for self-publishing writers, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) in 2012 and the creative development program for writers, Indie Author Lab, run in association with the London Book Fair and Author Nation in 2026.
Indie Author Lab Online runs through her Substack for authors and her new writing appears first on her Substack for Readers.
Browse and buy all her books on her author website: OrnaRoss.com/Books
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