Zoë Skoulding
Zoë Skoulding FLSW is a poet, living in Wales, whose work encompasses translation, editing, sound-based vocal performance, literary criticism and teaching creative writing. Her poetry has been widely anthologised, translated into over 25 languages and presented at numerous international festivals. Career Skoulding is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, where her research explores urban space, sound, ecopoetics, contemporary experimental poetry and translation. She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including Metropoetica, and has translated from French the selected poems of Luxembourg poet Jean Portante. In 2018 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors for the achievement and distinction of her body of work and her contribution to poetry. Her collection Footnotes to Water won the poetry category in the Wales Book of the Year awards, 2020. As Editor of Poetry Wales from 2008 to 2014, she maintained the magazine's international focus and broadened its scope to include more experimental forms of poetry. Her musical collaborations include the psychogeographical collective Parking Non-Stop and sound art/poetry performances with Alan Holmes. In the 1990s, Skoulding wrote lyrics for the Welsh musicians Rheinallt H Rowlands and David Wrench, with whom she also played bass. She recorded and performed with the "anglo-welsh kosmische supergroup" The Serpents. In 2021, Skoulding was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Personal life Zoë Skoulding was born in Bradford, United Kingdom in 1967. Having lived in East Anglia, India and Belgium, she now resides in North Wales with her musician husband, Alan Holmes. Bibliography Poetry collections 1998 Tide Table 2004 The Mirror Trade 2007 Dark Wires (with Ian Davidson) 2008 From Here (with Simonetta Moro) 2008 Remains of a Future City 2013 The Museum of Disappearing Sounds 2016 Teint: For the Bièvre 2018 Las habitaciones y otros poemas [Translators: Katherine Hedeen and Victor Rodríguez Núñez] 2019 Footnotes to Water 2020 A Revolutionary Calendar 2022 A Marginal Sea Other publications 2009 You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral (trilingual (En/Cz/D) booklet and audio CD with Alan Holmes, Richard Hopewell, Huw Jones, Monika Rinck, Eva Klimentova, Alexandra Buchler) 2008 Crwydro / Marcheurs Des Bois: A Wales Quebec Ambulation (with Daniel Poulin and Simon Whitehead) 2013 Metropoetica – Poetry and urban space: women writing cities (with Ingmāra Balode, Julia Fiedorczuk, Sanna Karlström, Ana Pepelnik, Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese) 2013 Placing Poetry (edited with Ian Davidson) Poems in anthologies 2008 Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English (ed. Amy Wack and Eva Salzman, Seren) 2010 Identity Parade (ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe) 2010 Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman) 2011 The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry (ed. Harriet Tarlo, Shearsman) 2012 Best British Poetry 2012 (ed. Sasha Dugdale, Salt) 2015 Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically innovative poetry by women in the USA and UK (ed. Emily Critchley, Reality Street) 2021 Poetry and Covid-19 (ed. Anthony Caleshu and Rory Waterman, Shearsman) 2021 Last Kind Words (ed. Peter Riley, Shearsman) Monographs 2013 Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: