Zoë Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding is a Welsh poet, whose work also encompasses translation, editing, sound-based vocal performance, literary criticism and teaching creative writing. Her poetry has been included in several UK anthologies, translated into 18 languages and presented widely at international festivals.

Zoë Skoulding
Born (1967-11-18) 18 November 1967
Bradford, England
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish / French / Spanish
NationalityWelsh
Period1996–
Website
www.zoeskoulding.co.uk

Career

Skoulding is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, where her research focuses on urban space, contemporary women's poetry and translation.[1] She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including Metropoetica[2] and poetry of the city, and translated from French the selected poems of Luxembourg poet Jean Portante.

Her musical collaborations include the psychogeographical collective Parking Non-Stop and sound art/poetry performances with Alan Holmes.[3]

As Editor of Poetry Wales.[4] from 2008 to 2014, she maintained the magazine's international focus and broadened its scope to include more experimental forms of poetry.[5]

Skoulding has written lyrics for the Welsh musicians Rheinallt H Rowlands and David Wrench, with whom she also played bass. She has performed with the "anglo-welsh kosmische supergroup" The Serpents.

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. [6][7]

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 Walter
  • 2020 The Celestial Set-Up

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)

Discography
  • 1996 Rheinallt H Rowlands – Bukowski
  • 1997 David Wrench – Black Roses
  • 1997 David Wrench – Blow Winds Blow
  • 1997 David Wrench – The Ballad of the Christmas Tree and the Silver Birch
  • 1998 The Serpents – No Mask, No Cloak, Dim Gobaith
  • 1999 The Serpents – You Have Just Been Poisoned by the Serpents
  • 2001 Various artists – Infrasonic Waves
  • 2006 Faust – Faust... in Autumn
  • 2007 Various artists – Klangbad Festival 2007
  • 2008 Parking Non-Stop - Species Corridor
  • 2009 Zoë Skoulding - You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral
  • 2010 Parking Non-Stop - Cold Star


References
  1. "Prof Zoë Skoulding | School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics | Bangor University". Bangor.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 24 November 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Zoe Skoulding editor Poetry Wales from 2008 Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Malcolm Ballin, Welsh Periodicals in English 1882–2012, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013, pp. 129 and 180
  6. https://www.societyofauthors.org/News/News/2018/July/The-SoA-2018-Authors%E2%80%99-Awards-shares-%C2%A398,000-in-%E2%80%98ni
  7. https://www.serenbooks.com/newsentry/zo%C3%AB-skoulding-wins-poetry-category-wales-book-year-2020
Poems online
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