Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a half-British, half-Italian writer and secondary school English teacher with experience teaching abroad. A poet who plays with language, Teo is the author of the experimental poetry collections The Ox House and I Imagine An Image, both published by Penteract Press. Contrasting their abstract poems, Teo’s stories explore and critique contemporary social realities.
Q: What is the first book you remember reading or having read to you as a child?
A: My mother used to read stories from a child’s adaptation of The Odyssey to my brother and I before we went to sleep. My earliest attempts at stories must have been more imitations of Greek mythology than anything else.
Q: Do you have a favourite quote? (From a book, film, song, speech…)
A: ‘I don’t trust quotes and maxims. Often they say less than saying nothing does.’ —Talant Blair, The True Lies Of the Unfortunate Fortunates
Q: Who is your personal inspiration?
A: Ali Smith for the clarity and levity and seriousness with which she writes about the most pressing issues of our time. If the job of an artist is to shine a light on things that must be spoken, an idea proposed in her own Summer, then Ali Smith is the most consistent writer there is. In the poetry world, Anthony Etherin, who proves with every poem that writing is indeed a kind of magic.