I am Professor in Poetry and Creative Writing in the School of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics and Undergraduate Course Director in Creative Writing. I co-direct ContemPo, the Centre for Contemporary Poetry http://contempo.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en.

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.

Position: Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing

Email: z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382106

Location: Room 311 New Arts

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. 

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 Bangor 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.

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

2024

2023

  • Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgOn Immersion: A Note on Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's Of Sea
    Skoulding, Z., 10 Ion 2023, (Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg) Yn: Paideuma. 51
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Rhifyn Arbennig
  • CyhoeddwydThe Taste of Revolution
    Skoulding, Z., 27 Gorff 2023, Literature and the Senses. Kern-Stähler, A. & Robertson, E. (gol.). Oxford: OUP, t. 339-354 (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature).
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • Cyhoeddwyd“All the birds had called a conference”: Songs of the Emergency
    Skoulding, Z., 10 Gorff 2023, "Places that the map can’t contain" Poetics in the Anthropocene. Fiedorczuk, J. & Piszczatowski, P. (gol.). V&R Unipress
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd“Who was ever only themselves?” Cross-border Ecologies of Translation
    Skoulding, Z., 29 Medi 2023, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Fiedorczuk, J., Newell, M., Quetchenbach, B. & Tierney, O. (gol.). 10 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

2021

2020

  • CyhoeddwydA Revolutionary Calendar
    Skoulding, Z., 31 Awst 2020, Bristol: Shearsman Books. 130 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr
  • CyhoeddwydPoetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric
    Skoulding, Z., 4 Tach 2020, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. (Poetry &...; Cyfrol 10)
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydPoetry in Expanded Translation: Special Issue
    Skoulding, Z. (Golygydd) & Hilson, J. (Golygydd), Rhag 2020, Yn: English. 69, 267
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Rhifyn Arbennig › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydThe Celestial Set-Up
    Skoulding, Z., 1 Gorff 2020, Bethesda: Oystercatcher Press. 24 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr

2019

2017

  • CyhoeddwydCaroline Bergvall’s Drift: Subtitles and Sounded Text
    Skoulding, Z., 2017, Poetry/Translation/Film. Serban, A. & Dussol, V. (gol.). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion gol. Lille, Cyfrol Arts du spectacle. (Arts du Spectacle).
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydFilm, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts
    Skoulding, Z., Hyd 2017, Reading Dylan Thomas. Allen, E. (gol.). University of Edinburgh Press
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • CyhoeddwydUnderground Rivers: Notes Towards a Zoepoetics
    Skoulding, Z., Awst 2017, Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Byrne, J. & Sheppard, R. (gol.). Edge Hill University Press and Arc Publications
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod

2016

  • CyhoeddwydDisappearing sounds: poetry, noise and narrative
    Skoulding, Z. C., Kinzel, T. (Golygydd) & Mildorf, J. (Golygydd), 25 Ebr 2016, Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative. 2016 gol. Walter De Gruyter, (Narratologia; Cyfrol 52).
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
  • CyhoeddwydTeint: For the Bièvre/Pour la Bièvre
    Skoulding, Z. & Portante, J. (Cyfieithydd), 18 Chwef 2016, Swansea: Hafan Books. 48 t. (Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks)
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr

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2008

2004

  • CyhoeddwydThe Mirror Trade
    Skoulding, Z., 1 Ion 2004, Seren.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr

2024

  • End of Year Showcase

    End of year showcase of creative and research work by students in the School of Arts, Culture, and Language

    7 Gorff 2024

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Poetry and sound performance in Midsummer Specials, Schiphorst, Germany

    Collaborative performance of poetry and sound.

    22 Meh 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Poetry in the Digital Age: Third International Conference

    20 Meh 2024 – 22 Meh 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr gwadd)
  • Llanw a Thrai / Oceanic Translations Word Oceans Day, Pontio

    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 Meh 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
  • Los Confines International Poetry Festival, Gracias Honduras

    Professor Zoë Skoulding (School of Arts, Culture and Language) took part in the Los Confines International Poetry Festival in Gracias Lempira and Copán 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 Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Katherine M. Hedeen. Her poetry readings and discussions in Gracias included one on the theme of Europe, as seen from the outside. In Copán Ruinas she talked about listening to the non-human world with secondary school students from CEMG Núñez Chinchilla. “It is exciting to have a new book out in a culture where there are such enthusiastic readers of poetry,” said Zoë. “Honduras is a beautiful country, but it faces enormous social, economic and climate-related challenges. It’s a privilege to be part of an initiative like this that aims to strengthen creative education with poetry as its central focus.” Her visit was funded by the Welsh Government’s Taith scheme.

    21 Mai 2024 – 26 Mai 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
  • Poetry performance at Xing the Line, London

    Poetry andsound performance, including collaboration with montenegrofisher

    12 Mai 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr)
  • Language is à Virus Sound Poetry Performance, Paris

    Sound poetry performance at Les Guillotines, Montreuil.

    26 Ebr 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
  • Creative Writing for Trainee GPs

    A three-hour workshop with trainee GPs, exploring poetry and the senses.

    16 Ebr 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
  • Workshop at DCSMAT Vagamon

    Workshop with students at DCSMAT Vagamon, India, in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers and funded by Taith

    17 Ion 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
  • Performance at DCSMAT Vagamon

    Collaborative performance with Montenegrofisher and Juana Adcock, in association with Literature Across Frontiers, funded by Taith, for students at DCSMAT.

    16 Ion 2024

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
  • Kerala Literature Festival: Translating Poetry

    Round Table at Kerala Literature Festival

    Translating Poetry: Meena Kandasamy| Juana Adcock| K Satchidanandan | Zoë Skoulding| Anwar Ali

    Funded by Taith and organised by Literature Across Frontiers

    14 Ion 2024

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Kerala Literature Festival: Poetry Performance

    Juana Adcock | Luna Montenegro | Adrian Fisher | Zoë Skoulding

    Supported by Taith and organised by Literature Across Frontiers

    13 Ion 2024

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)

2023

  • Border Crossings II

    14 Rhag 2023 – 15 Rhag 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr gwadd)
  • Public Poetry Performance at Po-Ex, SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE POESÍA EXPERIMENTAL Santiago de Chile

    Sound poetry performance

    BAR SANTO REMEDIO, PROVIDENCIA, Santiago de Chile

    26 Hyd 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Festival Internacional de Poesia Joven Jauria de Palabras, Bolivia

    Professor Zoë 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 Awst 2023 – 4 Medi 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Outdoor workshops with schools

    Outdoor multilingual poetry workshops in Coed Cyrnol in collaboration with montenegrofisher for students from Ysgol Brynrefail and Ysgol Treffynnon. Funded by BU IIA

    17 Gorff 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Ymgysylltu ag ysgolion (Cyfrannwr)
  • GŴYL TYSILIO FESTIVAL

    Poetry readings featuring Ifor ap Glyn, Manon Awst, Lee Duggan and Zoë Skoulding, a poetry workshop with montenegofisher, and augmented reality mapping by Joanna Wright. Organised by Zoë Skoulding as part of BU IIA.

    16 Gorff 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Cyfrannwr)
  • Silesius Poetry Festival

    Livestreamed poetry reading from A Marginal Sea and discussion.

    21 Mai 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr)
  • Resounding Bodies: Ecopoetics, Listening and Translation

    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’s in it. How can experimental practices of poetry and translation enable different kinds of listening – and therefore new kinds of community – across the boundaries of languages, species, and forms of knowledge? Professor Zoë Skoulding will draw on examples from her own writing and translation to explore poetry’s acoustic context and what this means for ecological relationships.

    15 Mai 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

2022

2021

  • THE AMERICAN LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION 2021

    15 Hyd 2021 – 17 Hyd 2021

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr)
  • Traduction – relation

    4 Hyd 2021 – 8 Hyd 2021

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr)
  • Creating Across Languages Video Workshop Series

    As part of Professor Zoë Skoulding’s 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 Mai 2021 – 1 Medi 2022

    Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs Academaidd (Siaradwr)

  • Migrating knowledges: Science, subjectivity and landscape

    01/02/2022 – 01/08/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

  • Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Circulation and Practice

    01/09/2020 – 01/08/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

  • Poetry in Expanded Translation

    01/01/2017 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)

    Disgrifiad

    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.

    Cysylltau:

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. 

A collaboration with the artist Ben Stammers was supported by the Arts Council of Wales and the ESRC Bangor 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.