Zoë Skoulding is an English/Welsh

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, 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.

Career

Skoulding is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at

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, where her research focuses on urban space, contemporary women's poetry and translation. She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including Metropoetica and poetry of the city, and translated from French the selected poems of Luxembourg poet

Jean Portante Jean Portante (born 19 December 1950 in Differdange) is a Luxembourgish writer who resides in Paris. He has written novels, stories, plays, journalistic articles and poetry, and has been widely translated. Numerous books have been translated incl ...

. Her musical collaborations include the

psychogeographical Psychogeography is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes. It was developed by members of the Letterist International and Situationist International, which were revolution ...

collective

Parking Non-Stop Parking Non-Stop (sometimes abbreviated to PN-S) is a north Wales based psychogeographical musical/artistic collective who experiment in combining soundscape and field recordings with spoken word and music. The group consist of the poet Zoë Sk ...

and sound art/poetry performances with

Alan Holmes Alan Holmes is a musician, artist and record producer, based in north Wales. Although he began his musical career in the late 1960s in childhood beat group The Insects, he first came to prominence in The Zuggs (in 1979), followed by A Silly Tree ...

. As Editor of ''

Poetry Wales ''Poetry Wales'' is a triannual poetry magazine published in Bridgend, Wales. Founded by Meic Stephens and now published by Seren, it is edited by Zoë Brigley. Since its first publication in 1965, the magazine has built an international reput ...

''. from 2008 to 2014, she maintained the magazine's international focus and broadened its scope to include more experimental forms of poetry. Skoulding has written lyrics for the

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musicians Rheinallt H Rowlands and David Wrench, with whom she also played bass. She has performed with the "anglo-welsh kosmische supergroup"

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. In 2018 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the

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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 The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Established in 1992, the awards are currently ad ...

awards, 2020.

Personal life

Zoë Skoulding was born in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

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in 1967. Having lived in

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

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, she now resides in

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with her musician husband,

Bibliography

Poetry collections

*1998 ''Tide Table'' *2004 ''The Mirror Trade'' *2007 ''Dark Wires'' (with Ian Davidson) *2008 ''From Here'' (with

Simonetta Moro Simonetta Moro (born December 31, 1970) is an artist and educator, best known for her drawings, prints, paintings, and mappings that depict the flow of change, landmasses, the depth of history, and psychological states or memory. Moving to New Y ...

) *2008 ''Remains of a Future City'' *2013 ''The Museum of Disappearing Sounds'' *2016 ''Teint: For the Bièvre'' *2018 ''Las habitaciones y otros poemas'' ranslators: Katherine Hedeen and Victor Rodríguez Núñez *2019 ''Footnotes to Water'' *2020 ''The Celestial Set-Up''

Other publications

*2009 ''You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral'' (trilingual (En/Cz/D) booklet and audio CD with

, Richard Hopewell, Huw Jones,

Monika Rinck Monika Rinck (born 29 April 1969 in Zweibrücken) is a German writer. Life and work After graduating from high school, Monika Rinck studied religious studies, history, and comparative literature in Bochum, Berlin and Yale. She writes poetry, pro ...

, Eva Klimentova, Alexandra Buchler) *2008 ''Crwydro / Marcheurs Des Bois: A Wales Quebec Ambulation'' (with

Daniel Poulin Joseph Gérard Daniel Poulin (September 19, 1957 – January 2, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars during the 1981–82 NHL season, 1981–8 ...

and Simon Whitehead) *2013 ''Metropoetica – Poetry and urban space: women writing cities'' (with Ingmāra Balode,

Julia Fiedorczuk Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. ...

, Sanna Karlström, Ana Pepelnik,

Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir (born 27 August 1973) is an Icelandic writer. She was born in Akranes and received a BA in comparative literature and a degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Iceland. She subsequently w ...

, 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

– ''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 is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads ...

– ''Faust... in Autumn'' *2007 Various artists – ''Klangbad Festival 2007'' *2008

- ''Species Corridor'' *2009 Zoë Skoulding - ''You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral'' *2010 Parking Non-Stop - ''Cold Star''

References

External links

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Zoë Skoulding Bangor University staff page

Parking Non-Stop official website
;Poems online
SHEARSMAN BOOKSPN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - The Man in the Moone - Zoë Skoulding - PN Review 203
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