Zoë Skoulding

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

She is Senior Lecturer at Bangor University, where her research is focused on urban space, contemporary women's poetry and translation.^[1] She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including Metropoetica,^[2] focusing on poetry of the city, and has translated the Selected Poems of Luxembourgish poet Jean Portante from French.

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

As Editor of Poetry Wales.^[4] since 2008 she has maintained the magazine's international focus as well as broadening the magazine's scope to include more experimental forms of poetry.^[5]

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

Personal life

Skoulding was born in Bradford, United Kingdom in 1967. Having previously lived in East Anglia, India and Belgium, Zoë Skoulding now lives in north Wales with her husband, the musician Alan Holmes.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

2013 "The Museum of Disappearing Sounds"
2008 "Remains of a Future City"
2008 "From Here" (with Simonetta Moro)
2007 "Dark Wires" (with Ian Davidson)
2004 "The Mirror Trade"
1998 "Tide Table"

Other Publications

2013 "Placing Poetry" (edited with Ian Davidson)
2013 "Metropoetica - Poetry and urban space: women writing cities" (with Ingmāra Balode, Julia Fiedorczuk, Sanna Karlström, Ana Pepelnik, Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese)
2008 "Crwydro / Marcheurs Des Bois: A Wales Quebec Ambulation" (with Daniel Poulin and Simon Whitehead)
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)

Poems in anthologies

2012 "Best British Poetry 2012" (ed. Sasha Dugdale, Salt).
2011 "The Ground Aslant : Radical Landscape Poetry" (ed. Harriet Tarlo, Shearsman).
2010 "Infinite Difference : Other Poetries by UK Women Poets" (ed. Carrie Etter, Shearsman).
2010 "Identity Parade" (ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe).
2008 "Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English" (ed. Amy Wack and Eva Salzman, Seren).

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

Selected recent international performances and festivals

2013 Avant-Garde Festival, Schiphorst
2013 Reading Poetry Festival
2013 Prague Bookworld
2013 Stanza Festival, St Andrews

2012 Fiction Fiesta, Cardiff
2012 Dinefwr Festival
2012 Poets Live, Paris
2012 Ars Cameralis, Katowice

2011 Bodø Festival, Norway (with Parking Non-Stop)
2011 Control Club, Bucharest (with Parking Non-Stop)
2011 Novi Sad Literature Festival, Serbia
2011 Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia
2011 World Festival of Poetry, Venezuela
2011 Ledbury Festival (with Poetry Connections)
2011 Dasein Café, Athens
2011 Wroclaw Port Festival, Poland (with Metropoetica)
2011 Café Fra, Prague

2010 Granada International Festival of Poetry, Nicaragua
2010 The Other Room Series, Manchester
2010 Printemps de Poètes, Luxembourg
2010 Lyd+Litteratur Aarhus, Denmark
2010 Riga Poetry Evenings, Latvia (with Metropoetica)
2010 Readings/performances in Pondicherry, Chennai, Pune and Trivandrum as part of Poetry Connections with Literature Across Frontiers in association with the British Council ^[6]

2009 AWEN International Festival of Poetry and Film, ATRiuM, Cardiff
2009 Berlin Poesiefestival
2009 Vilenica Festival, Slovenia (with Metropoetica)
2009 Ars Poetica, Bratislava

2008 Nødutgang Festival, Bodø, Norway
2008 Medana Festival, Slovenia

References

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↑ [Malcolm Ballin, Welsh Periodicals in English 1882-2012. Cardiff: University of Wales press, 2013, pp. 129 and 180]
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