Zoë Skoulding Explained

Zoë Skoulding
Birth Date:1967 11, df=y
Birth Place:Bradford, England
Occupation:Poet
Language:English / French / Spanish
Nationality:Welsh
Period:1996–

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.[1] She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including Metropoetica, [2] 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.[3] [4]

As Editor of Poetry Wales[5] from 2008 to 2014, she maintained the magazine's international focus and broadened its scope to include more experimental forms of poetry.[6]

Her musical collaborations include the psychogeographical collective Parking Non-Stop and sound art/poetry performances with Alan Holmes.[7]

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.[8]

In 2021, Skoulding was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[9]

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

Other publications

Poems in anthologies

Monographs

Discography

Selected international performances

External links

Poems online

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof Zoë Skoulding | School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics | Bangor University . Bangor.ac.uk . 2020-05-19 . 23 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182202/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/staff/skoulding.php . dead.
  2. https://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/activities-and-projects/project/metropoetica/
  3. Web site: SoA shares £98,000 in 'night of riches' at 2018 Authors' Awards | The Society of Authors . www.societyofauthors.org.
  4. Web site: Zoë Skoulding wins the Poetry Category in Wales Book of the Year 2020 | Seren Books . www.serenbooks.com.
  5. Web site: Poet Casting – Poet Casting . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727152345/http://www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=189. dead . 27 July 2011.
  6. Malcolm Ballin, Welsh Periodicals in English 1882–2012, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013, pp. 129 and 180
  7. Web site: Parking Non-Stop . 24 November 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061019030410/http://www.parkingnonstop.com/ . 19 October 2006.
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgRKfDtmDSI&ab_channel=%CE%A4%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B4%CE%B1%CF%82
  9. Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . Zoe Skoulding . 2023-08-31 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.
  10. https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/remains-future-city
  11. https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/museum-disappearing-sounds
  12. https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/footnotes-water
  14. https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2442
  15. Web site: Poetry Connections India – Literature Across Frontiers . Lit-across-frontiers.org . 2020-05-19.
  16. https://dailycal.org/2018/09/16/panel-atlantic-drift-literary-international
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdbCPTFPh8&ab_channel=ashrafAboul-yaziddali
  18. https://arspoetica.sk/festival/2018
  19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Le0LzBiBLM&ab_channel=FestivalInternacionaldePoes%C3%ADadeMedell%C3%ADn
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrfVT0meVg&ab_channel=doublechangereadings
  21. http://fipsantiago.com/2019/programa.html
  22. https://www.fiptr.com/fr/programme.html?view=article&id=841&catid=129
  23. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/arts-culture-language/zoe-skoulding-008413/en#activities

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Zoë Skoulding".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.