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How do we craft verse to create a world of myth? In what ways can we take the myths or fairy tales that impacted our childhoods and engage them in our own re-making?

Whether we are talking about Robin Coste Lewis’s, Voyage of the Sable Venus, a work that creates a universe of seeing through an interrogation of very real museum/cultural archives – thousands of years old – of the Black body across time, or Helen Ivory’s Waiting for Bluebeard, a work that reshapes the well known tale about Bluebeard to navigate the complex terrain of gender, sexaulity and trauma, the world building and creating is evident within these verses. And within what I call my interpretation, interrogation and conversation with Ovid, my second book of poetry, Black Metamorphoses, co-exists within a long history of engagement with Ovidian and Greek mythology. I’ve also engaged in myth making for my ongoing multimedia work and exhibition, Dark Goddess.

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How do we craft verse to create a world of myth? In what ways can we take the myths or fairy tales that impacted our childhoods and engage them in our own re-making?

Whether we are talking about Robin Coste Lewis’s, Voyage of the Sable Venus, a work that creates a universe of seeing through an interrogation of very real museum/cultural archives – thousands of years old – of the Black body across time, or Helen Ivory’s Waiting for Bluebeard, a work that reshapes the well known tale about Bluebeard to navigate the complex terrain of gender, sexaulity and trauma, the world building and creating is evident within these verses. And within what I call my interpretation, interrogation and conversation with Ovid, my second book of poetry, Black Metamorphoses, co-exists within a long history of engagement with Ovidian and Greek mythology. I’ve also engaged in myth making for my ongoing multimedia work and exhibition, Dark Goddess.