Bex Hainsworth : part one

Bex Hainsworth (she/her) is a poet and teacher based in Leicester, UK. She won the Collection HQ Prize as part of the East Riding Festival of Words and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review, Ethel Zine, Atrium, Okay Donkey, Acropolis Journal, and Brave Voices Magazine. Find her on Twitter @PoetBex. 

What are you working on? 

I’m currently dabbling with the drafts of two poems which retell famous stories from a female perspective. One is narrated by Helena, a character from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the other is in the voice of Thetis, nereid and mother of Achilles in Greek mythology, exploring the events which led to the hero’s birth. I am also working on my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, which features a collection of odes to marine life, and highlights the threats they are facing.