Professor Zo毛 Skoulding

Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing / Director of Research, Impact and Engagement

z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk

Overview

I am Professor in Poetry and Creative Writing in the School of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics聽and Undergraduate Course Director in Creative Writing. I co-direct ContemPo, the Centre for Contemporary Poetry聽.

In my research I bring together my practice as a poet with a critical interest in place, sonic environments, ecopoetics and various forms of translation.

I am a Fellow of the English Association.

Additional Contact Information

Position: Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing

Email:听z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk

Phone:听+44 (0) 1248 382106

Location: Room 311 New Arts

Teaching and Supervision

I teach creative writing, with a focus on poetry, the short story, creative translation and experimental writing. I also teach contemporary literature, with an emphasis on poetry, Welsh writing in English, and ecopoetics.

I am happy to consider PhD proposals relating to any of these areas.聽

Research Interests

The core of my research is my practice as a poet. I am interested in exploring relationships between language and environments, whether urban or rural. Recent projects exploring lost rivers in 香港六合彩挂牌资料 and Paris investigate the interweaving of human and non-human lives. I translate from French, and my work also draws on a close connection between translation and creative practice, particularly in experimental contexts. I often collaborate with artists and musicians, and have performed my work across Europe, India and Latin America.

My critical work has focused on contemporary women poets and urban space, the Welsh modernist poet Lynette Roberts, and the role of listening in poetry, which is the focus of my forthcoming monograph.

From 2017 to 2018 I directed the AHRC-funded research network Poetry in Expanded Translation, which brought together an international grouping of poets, translators, critics, choreographers and musicians for a series of conferences.

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I welcome proposals related to any aspect of my research or teaching, particularly in poetry, ecopoetics, creative translation and experimental writing.

Publications

2024

Published
Skoulding, Z., Jun 2024, In: The Translator. 30, 2, 281-293.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2023

Accepted/In press
Skoulding, Z., 10 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Paideuma. 51
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Special issue
Published
Skoulding, Z., 27 Jul 2023, Literature and the Senses. Kern-St盲hler, A. & Robertson, E. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, p. 339-354 (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z., 10 Jul 2023, "Places that the map can鈥檛 contain" Poetics in the Anthropocene. Fiedorczuk, J. & Piszczatowski, P. (eds.). V&R Unipress
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z., 29 Sept 2023, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Fiedorczuk, J., Newell, M., Quetchenbach, B. & Tierney, O. (eds.). 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review

2022

Published
Skoulding, Z., 27 Oct 2022, Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd. 84 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z., 15 Oct 2022
Research output: Other contribution
Published
Skoulding, Z. (Editor) & Hedeen, K. M. (Editor), 30 Nov 2022, Bristol: Shearsman Books. 204 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

2021

Published
Skoulding, Z. & Robinson, R. (Translator), 29 Dec 2021, In: Tenso Diagonal. 12, p. 155-174 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. & Avasilichioaei , O., 15 Aug 2021, Montreal : Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters.
Research output: Other contribution
Published
Skoulding, Z. & Lema Otavalo, Y. L., 19 Mar 2021, Poetry and Covid-19: An Anthology of Contemporary International and Collaborative Poetry. Caleshu, A. & Waterman, R. (eds.). Bristol: Shearsman Books, p. 79-82 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. & Avasilichioaei, O., 2021, 3 p. Bridgend : Poetry Wales Press.
Research output: Other contribution
Published
Oana Avasilichioaei & Skoulding, Z., 31 Aug 2021, Toronto : The Puritan.
Research output: Other contribution

2020

Published
Skoulding, Z., 31 Aug 2020, Bristol: Shearsman Books. 130 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z., 4 Nov 2020, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. (Poetry &...; vol. 10)
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. (Editor) & Hilson, J. (Editor), Dec 2020, In: English. 69, 267
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Special issue 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z., 1 Jul 2020, Bethesda: Oystercatcher Press. 24 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

2019

Published
Skoulding, Z., 21 Oct 2019, Bridgend: Seren Books. 68 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z., Apr 2019, Locating Lynette Roberts: 鈥楢lways Observant and Slightly Obscure'. McAvoy, S. (ed.). University of Wales Press, p. 177-196
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z., 2 Jan 2019, The Conversation.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication 鈥� Article

2017

Published
Skoulding, Z., 2017, Poetry/Translation/Film. Serban, A. & Dussol, V. (eds.). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion ed. Lille, Vol. Arts du spectacle. (Arts du Spectacle).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z., Oct 2017, Reading Dylan Thomas. Allen, E. (ed.). University of Edinburgh Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z., Aug 2017, Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Byrne, J. & Sheppard, R. (eds.). Edge Hill University Press and Arc Publications
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2016

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., Kinzel, T. (Editor) & Mildorf, J. (Editor), 25 Apr 2016, Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative. 2016 ed. Walter De Gruyter, (Narratologia; vol. 52).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. & Portante, J. (Translator), 18 Feb 2016, Swansea: Hafan Books. 48 p. (Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks)
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

2015

Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Dunthorne, J., 1 Dec 2015, In: Poetry Wales. 51, 2, p. 43-44
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 18 Jun 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z., 2015, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK. Critchley, E. (ed.). Reality Street, p. 293-300
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Birkan-Berz, C., 17 Oct 2015, In: Palimpsestes. 28, p. 97-116
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. & Fondebrider, J. (Editor), 5 Oct 2015, Poetas que traducen poes铆a. 2015 ed. LOM ediciones
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2014

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 11 Oct 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 11 Sept 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z., 25 Jun 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Birkan-Berz, C., 17 Oct 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z., 8 Sept 2014, In: Contemporary Womens Writing. 9, 1, p. 159-160
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2013

Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 7 Nov 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 18 Oct 2013, Palgrave Macmillan.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Portante, J. & Skoulding, Z. (Editor), 20 Sept 2013, 2013 ed. Seren.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., Skoulding, Z. & Davidson, I. (Editor), 1 Jan 2013, Placing poetry. 2013 ed. Rodopi, p. 93-113
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., Balode, A., Fiedorczuk, J., Karlstrom, S. & Pepelnik, A., 30 May 2013, Seren.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Robinson, P. (Editor), 26 Sept 2013, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. (Editor), Davidson, I. (Editor) & Skoulding, Z. (Editor), 1 Jan 2013, 2013 ed. Rodopi.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Rothenberg, J., Skoulding, Z. C. (Editor) & Portante, J. (Editor), May 2013, 脡ditions Caract猫res.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 1 May 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 7 Oct 2013, Seren.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

2012

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 1 Apr 2012, Nutopia: A Critical View of Future Cities. Miles, M. & Savage, J. (eds.). 2012 ed. University of Plymouth Press, p. 116-129
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z., 25 May 2012.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 7 Jul 2012.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper

2011

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 22 Jul 2011, Performing Poetry: Body: Place and Rhythm in the Poetry Performance.. Graebner, C. & Casas, A. (eds.). 2011 ed. Rodopi, p. 247-262
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z., 1 Sept 2011, In: Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. 3, 2, p. 123-139
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 2 Nov 2011.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Turley, R. M. (Editor), 20 Oct 2011, The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions (Essays and Studies). 2011 ed. D.S. Brewer
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 11 Apr 2011, In: Translation Studies. 4, 2, p. 183-196
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2010

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 14 Jul 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 1 Oct 2010, In: Feminist Review. 96, p. 89-105
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Fiedorczuk, J., 2 Sept 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z., 28 Jun 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 13 Nov 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper

2009

Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 2 Apr 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 1 Jan 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 7 Mar 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper

2008

Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 1 Jan 2008, Ypolita Press.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
Published
Skoulding, Z. C., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper
Published
Skoulding, Z., 1 Jan 2008, Seren.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

2004

Published
Skoulding, Z., 1 Jan 2004, Seren.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

Activities

2024

End of year showcase of creative and research work by students in the School of Arts, Culture, and Language
7 Jul 2024
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
Collaborative performance of poetry and sound.
22 Jun 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
20 Jun 2024 鈥� 22 Jun 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker)
Collaborative poetry and sound performance with Montenegrofisher, Juana Adcock and Iestyn Tyne to mark World Oceans Day, drawing on collaboration for Taith-funded visit to India.
8 Jun 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)
Professor Zo毛 Skoulding (School of Arts, Culture and Language) took part in the Los Confines International Poetry Festival in Gracias Lempira and Cop谩n Ruinas, Honduras, which is organised in conjunction with schools, universities and libraries in the region. A new edition of her Selected Poems in Spanish, Las Habitaciones, was launched at the event, with translators V铆ctor Rodr铆guez N煤帽ez and Katherine M. Hedeen. Her poetry readings and discussions in Gracias included one on the theme of Europe, as seen from the outside. In Cop谩n Ruinas she talked about listening to the non-human world with secondary school students from CEMG N煤帽ez Chinchilla. 鈥淚t is exciting to have a new book out in a culture where there are such enthusiastic readers of poetry,鈥� said Zo毛. 鈥淗onduras is a beautiful country, but it faces enormous social, economic and climate-related challenges. It鈥檚 a privilege to be part of an initiative like this that aims to strengthen creative education with poetry as its central focus.鈥� Her visit was funded by the Welsh Government鈥檚 Taith scheme.
21 May 2024 鈥� 26 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)
Poetry andsound performance, including collaboration with montenegrofisher
12 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
Sound poetry performance at Les Guillotines, Montreuil.
26 Apr 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)
A three-hour workshop with trainee GPs, exploring poetry and the senses.
16 Apr 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
Workshop with students at DCSMAT Vagamon, India, in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers and funded by Taith
17 Jan 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
Collaborative performance with Montenegrofisher and Juana Adcock, in association with Literature Across Frontiers, funded by Taith, for students at DCSMAT.
16 Jan 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
Round Table at Kerala Literature Festival
Translating Poetry: Meena Kandasamy| Juana Adcock| K Satchidanandan | Zo毛 Skoulding| Anwar Ali
Funded by Taith and organised by Literature Across Frontiers
14 Jan 2024
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
Juana Adcock | Luna Montenegro | Adrian Fisher | Zo毛 Skoulding
Supported by Taith and organised by Literature Across Frontiers
13 Jan 2024
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

2023

14 Dec 2023 鈥� 15 Dec 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker)
Sound poetry performance
BAR SANTO REMEDIO, PROVIDENCIA, Santiago de Chile
26 Oct 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
Professor Zo毛 Skoulding was an invited speaker at this festival focused on developing an interest in poetry among younger audiences in the city of Santa Cruz and the rural town of Cuevo. This festival has developed with a specific youth focus. The host organisation, based at the cultural centre Casa Melchor Pinto, works with a number of cultural centres, libraries, and educational organisations to present poetry, in this annual event, as a literary and creative force for change. Skoulding gave readings of her own poetry in Spanish translation, and discussed poetry with children and young writers with a view to encouraging them by helping them to see the international relevance of their creative work. Reading at public events alongside young Bolivian poets and giving workshops enabled conversations about poetry from different perspectives.
30 Aug 2023 鈥� 4 Sep 2023
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
Outdoor multilingual poetry workshops in Coed Cyrnol in collaboration with montenegrofisher for students from Ysgol Brynrefail and Ysgol Treffynnon. Funded by BU IIA
17 Jul 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement (Contributor)
Poetry readings featuring Ifor ap Glyn, Manon Awst, Lee Duggan and Zo毛 Skoulding, a poetry workshop with montenegofisher, and augmented reality mapping by Joanna Wright. Organised by Zo毛 Skoulding as part of BU IIA.
16 Jul 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
Livestreamed poetry reading from A Marginal Sea and discussion.
21 May 2023
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
The challenge for humans in a time of crises for the climate and biological diversity is to change our thinking, to decentre ourselves and understand our place in continuity with the world and what鈥檚 in it. How can experimental practices of poetry and translation enable different kinds of listening 鈥� and therefore new kinds of community 鈥� across the boundaries of languages, species, and forms of knowledge? Professor Zo毛 Skoulding will draw on examples from her own writing and translation to explore poetry鈥檚 acoustic context and what this means for ecological relationships.
15 May 2023
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2022

Co-organising conference and presenting paper.
3 Dec 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
A creative writing walk and workshop exploring the French Revolutionary Calendar.
13 Nov 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
12 Nov 2022
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
After exploring a range of poetry in translation, Year 9 students from Ysgol Friars were invited to write poems in French, Welsh and English that responded to trees in their area.
11 Nov 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
Sound and poetry performance at Oroboro New Media Lab, Montr茅al
10 Oct 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
4 Oct 2022 鈥� 10 Oct 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
Reading in Kenyon College, Ohio
8 Sep 2022
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
North American Poetry 2000-2020/2
29 Jun 2022 鈥� 2 Jul 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
24 Jun 2022 鈥� 25 Jun 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
14 Jun 2022 鈥� 18 Jun 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
8 Jun 2022 鈥� 11 Jun 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
The focus of the project is on how experimental process and procedure in art and writing, influenced by the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, may be newly imagined in a local and global post-pandemic context.鈥疭uch modes are no longer linked to specific avant-garde groupings, but offer a means of exploring potential in language and materials, and relationships to 鈥痶he environment, to place. For example, the techniques of Oulipo and Fluxus may be appreciated anew as a means of critiquing and understanding the limitations and potential of human autonomy, including the large-scale effects of humans on the environment.鈥疕ow can process-based writing and site-specific performance help us to understand 鈥痶he wider distribution of agency and meaning beyond the human? Could this lead to better ecological understanding? How can this critique of subjectivity help to inform scientific processes?鈥�
Funding awarded through the 香港六合彩挂牌资料 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = 拢33,012
4 May 2022 鈥� 30 Apr 2023
Activity: Other (Contributor)

2021

15 Oct 2021 鈥� 17 Oct 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
4 Oct 2021 鈥� 8 Oct 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
As part of Professor Zo毛 Skoulding鈥檚 AHRC Leadership Fellowship 2020-22, she developed a project to encourage new approaches to creative writing in the new Curriculum for Wales. Meeting regularly with a team of education advisors from the GwE Gogledd Schools Improvement Service, she led development of a pilot unit of work for Year 8/9 pupils. Working with invited Welsh and international poets, she designed and co-delivered a series of twelve video workshops for use in teaching Welsh, English and French, modelling techniques for teaching poetry as a creative multilingual practice. These now form the basis for discussions with teachers in selected north Wales schools, who will collaborate on developing their own schemes of work structured around these materials but adapted to their specific contexts. These will be trialled with pupils in 2022-23 and used as a model to encourage further responses to the Curriculum for Wales.
3 May 2021 鈥� 1 Sep 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

Projects

01/02/2022 鈥� 01/08/2022 (Finished)
01/09/2020 鈥� 01/08/2022 (Finished)
01/01/2017 鈥� 01/08/2019 (Finished)

Description

Translation may seem like a simple matter of transposition between languages, but the translation of poetry in particular reveals the fascinating complexity and richness that comes from the interface of different languages and cultures. Language itself is constantly changing, and experimental forms of poetry have embraced the complex relations between words, meanings and the spaces they inhabit. As twenty-first century poetry expands into the possibilities of different media through international readings, performances and festivals, it also expands possibilities for translation. Poetry has always circulated internationally. The network will challenge the widespread view of autonomously monolingual poetic traditions while discovering how exchange between languages works in artistic terms, and how it brings cultural particularities into view.
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Other Grants and Projects

I led the AHRC network Poetry in Expanded Translation 2017-2018.

http://expanded-translation.bangor.ac.uk/

This network brought together practitioners and critics of poetry and translation with visual and sound artists to discover new ways of creating and interpreting language across art forms and cultures. In the context of a changing Europe, it analysed the impact of experimental traditions that continue to forge links between different languages, and discovered new ways of presenting poetry to multilingual audiences. Through its link with the National Poetry Library in London's Southbank Centre, it invited active involvement from readers and practitioners of poetry beyond academic contexts. At a time when technologies such as machine translation are enabling communication, the apparent untranslatability of poetry makes it a crucial site for the creative exploration and understanding of intercultural difference.聽

A collaboration with the artist Ben Stammers was supported by the Arts Council of Wales and the ESRC 香港六合彩挂牌资料 Impact Acceleration Award.

http://www.bangoradda.org/

rAdda is a collaborative art project that involves observing and thinking about the river and its relationship with the city. Through walks, performances, visual art and text, we are exploring the Adda as a connection between a disappearing past and a yet to be imagined future.聽