Steve Rushton describes himself as an artist who writes poems. His interests include Ovid in translation, art theory and practice, pre-Romantic poetry and playing the drums (he’s one half of poetry and sound project Ovid with Reverb).

 

Recent collections include the international collaboration/Ovid jam session Various Wanted with MARGENTO and Taner Murat (Timpul 2021) and the mock-manifesto poetry rant Preface Metamorphoses (erbacce-press 2022). 

 

Versions of his current prog-rock style poetry collection, Interpretations from the Dryden 

Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Literary Waves 2025), available in print and online at 

Academia, Google Play and Google Books, are “an incisive meditation on literary heritage, 

translation and cultural transmission…at once sagacious, allusive, colloquial and 

irreverent…” (Pete Smith, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature, Nottingham Trent 

University.).

 

His latest curated exhibition, Magdalena van der Passe and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a mashup of past and present poetry, art, music and theory, is at the University of Chichester until 19th September and is also available online at www.instagram.com/ovid.with.reverb. It's one of a number of international projects he's been involved with over the last decade (with partners including Literary Waves and Contemporary Literature Press, the online publishing house of the University of Bucharest). 

 

He’s received British Council and Arts Council grants, literary medals from Poland and 

Romania, and been translated into Polish, Romanian and Crimean Tatar. 

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Steve will be speaking as part of our WRITE ON WIGHT programme, visit this link to see full programme.