Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?

Zoe Skoulding's six previous collections of poems include A Marginal Sea (Carcanet, 2022), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, following most recently by A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman, 2020) and Footnotes to Water (Seren, 2019), which won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award. She is co-editor, with Katherine M. Hedeen, of Poetry's Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations (Shearsman, 2022), and her critical publications have explored poetry's relationships with place, listening, translation and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, and lives on Ynys Mon / Anglesey.

'Zoe Skoulding's new poems inhabit places of acute attention and listening on an earth whose nature is changing, and human nature along with it. Here speak is listen too, is hear; the land and waters we cross with the poet urge us not to serendipity but to a place of thinking, all of us "knots in time... translating light" in "the university of trees".'Erin Moure'Skoulding's songs unfold the curriculum of our polycrisis and the noise of our dreams... The music is insurgent and hits the fibre of our being with vibratory impact - Skoulding knows how to pitch to the spot where the echo comes back.'Jonathan Skinner