NOTES: (on comparing English Translations by Christopher Marlowe and John Dryden from Ovid’s Amores 1.1, 1.4 & 2.19)

Steve Rushton is a poet, artist and drummer and lives on The Isle of Wight and also in Liverpool. He started writing verse in 2004, performing on radio (Resonance FM) and in London’s East End.  He has three publications with erbacce-press (Burning a Paper Plate…of 2015, towards a new art of the same year, and lines written…while considering Ovid in translation from 2019).

From 2015 to 2017 he co-ordinated poetryartexchange(Romania/UK), an international collaborative project involving exhibitions, gigs and an online book of the same name published by Contemporary Literature Press, the online publishing house of University of Bucharest. His poetry and art are also part of another international project, Mosty:Bridges (Warsaw 2017). In the past three years he’s received Arts Council England grants: in 2017 for a poetryartexchange exhibition at Centrala Birmingham, and in 2018 for Constanta Project, a poetry and art collaboration based in Romania involving conferences, exhibitions, gigs (with his band Ovid with Reverb) and an online book Notes (on comparing English Translations by Christopher Marlowe and John Dryden from Ovid’s Amores 1.1, 1.4 & 2.19), a mixture of poetry, art and research edited by Lidia Vianu and also published by Contemporary Literature Press. His latest book, Various Wanted, a collaboration with MARGENTO and Taner Murat, will be published by Timpul in 2021.