zoë Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her publications include poetry collections The Mirror Trade (2004); Remains of a Future City (2008); The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013); Footnotes to Water (2019); and, most recently, A Marginal Sea (2022). Her work has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and Footnotes to Water won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. She is also a recipient of the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Her critical work includes two monographs, Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (2013), and Poetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric (2020). Her current research project is Transatlantic Translation: Poetry in Circulation and Practice Across Languages (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2020-22), following the network Poetry in Expanded Translation 2017-2018. From 2009 to 2011 she was, in partnership with Literature Across Frontiers, director of Metropoetica, a collaborative project on translation, gender and city space. She was Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales 2008-2014 and co-founded the (North) Wales International Poetry Festival in 2012.