Transformations
A Poetry-Art Exhibition
Launched today, a project that I’m honoured to have a little involvement with through my poetry
A global, collaborative poetry-art exhibition: Showcasing 29 emerging Twitter poets and artists, transforming Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(Poem about Iphis and Ianthe from the story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9)
Love Transcends.
(Iphis and Ianthe)
A raging fire burned
loves flames kindled
elicited by your beauty
innocence in despair
knowing this love
betrothed in ignorance
by a loving father
unaware of deceit
by a loving mother
accepting the truth
of the prophecy of Isis.
The Gods frowning
a Sapphic love
not yet countenanced
there should not be
girl with girl.
My desires
my beautiful Ianthe
that you be man
or even I
to consummate
to bring purity
for our love desires.
True love triumphs
above all foolishness
love is much more
than decreeing
the genders
of who has
madness to love
or to lie with
their desired bride.
Decreed by Isis
our troth fulfilled
I’m now man
rendered by Goddess
for satisfaction
of the Gods
and families.
Yet! my beautiful Ianthe
our love transcends
Gods, Goddess and Gender.
©Carol Robson 2013
February 2013-March 2014
17 poets, 15 months, creating 1 contemporary reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
See the Transformations Page for more details or the ‘Present Collaborations’ Tab
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Poems Inspired by Book 5
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Featuring:
Carol Robson and Rebecca Audra Smith
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This is another taste of the Transformations project I’m so pleased to be involved with through ArtiPeeps.
The Recovery Project :
3 artists (Ray Bentley, Jeremy Moseley and Hugo Smith) and 3 Poets (Carol Robson, Becca Smith and John Mansell) beavering away on the theme of the mental health issue of ‘recovery’. The poets and artists have been paired and are each focusing on a particular aspect of recovery. Audio visual artist Shaun Blezard has also written a 15 minute soundscape to accompany the piece. All the separate elements will be completed by the ends of April and will be pulled together into a whole in May. This is all part of the well-being aspect of ArtiPeeps and will feed into a sister site we will be launching called ArtiPeeps Wellbeing which will serve to support the creative mind.
February 2013-March 2014
17 poets, 15 months, creating 1 contemporary reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
See the Transformations Page for more details or the ‘Present Collaborations’ Tab
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Poems Inspired by Book 2
Featuring:
Carol Robson, Richard Biddle and Sadaf Fatima
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