From the gentle rivers of Shropshire to the heat-baked seas of Greece,
Daughter of the Sun
radiates with mothers and tracks our orbits around them.
Split into two parts, a sonnet sequence recounts Spence’s time reconnecting with her estranged mother – caring for her through illness and grieving her passing – before a bold rewriting of the myths around Medea reimagines her not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time.
With the power and salve of the natural world always close by,
contends with being a mother and a daughter, and also what it means to liberate ourselves of those identities and write our own myths full of freedom and possibility.