Professor Zoë Skoulding

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

z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk

Professor Zoë Skoulding

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 .

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 鶹 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

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., Jun 2024, In: The Translator. 30, 2, 281-293.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., Núñez, V. R. (Translator) & Hedeen, K. (Translator), 19 Apr 2024, Honduras. 68 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Accepted/In press
    Skoulding, Z., 9 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Poetry in the Digital Age. Benthien, C. (ed.). De Gruyter, (Poetry in the Digital Age).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2023

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 10 Jul 2023, "Places that the map can’t contain" Poetics in the Anthropocene. Fiedorczuk, J. & Piszczatowski, P. (eds.). V&R Unipress
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Accepted/In press
    Skoulding, Z., 10 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Paideuma. 51
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 27 Jul 2023, Literature and the Senses. Kern-Stähler, A. & Robertson, E. (eds.). Oxford: OUP, p. 339-354 (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • 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 › Chapter › peer-review

2022

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 27 Oct 2022, Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd. 84 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › 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 › 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 › Article › peer-review
  • 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
  • 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 › Chapter

2020

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

2019

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 21 Oct 2019, Bridgend: Seren Books. 68 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., Apr 2019, Locating Lynette Roberts: ‘Always Observant and Slightly Obscure'. McAvoy, S. (ed.). University of Wales Press, p. 177-196
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 2 Jan 2019, The Conversation.
    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › 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 › Chapter › 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 › Chapter › 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 › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. & Portante, J. (Translator), 18 Feb 2016, Swansea: Hafan Books. 48 p. (Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks)
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2015

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C. & Dunthorne, J., 1 Dec 2015, In: Poetry Wales. 51, 2, p. 43-44
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 18 Jun 2015.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C. & Birkan-Berz, C., 17 Oct 2015, In: Palimpsestes. 28, p. 97-116
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. & Fondebrider, J. (Editor), 5 Oct 2015, Poetas que traducen poesía. 2015 ed. LOM ediciones
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2014

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

2013

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 7 Nov 2013.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 18 Oct 2013, Palgrave Macmillan.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Portante, J. & Skoulding, Z. (Editor), 20 Sept 2013, 2013 ed. Seren.
    Research output: Book/Report › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., Balode, A., Fiedorczuk, J., Karlstrom, S. & Pepelnik, A., 30 May 2013, Seren.
    Research output: Book/Report › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C. (Editor), Davidson, I. (Editor) & Skoulding, Z. (Editor), 1 Jan 2013, 2013 ed. Rodopi.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Rothenberg, J., Skoulding, Z. C. (Editor) & Portante, J. (Editor), May 2013, Éditions Caractères.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C. & Skoulding, Z., 1 May 2013.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 7 Oct 2013, Seren.
    Research output: Book/Report › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 25 May 2012.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 7 Jul 2012.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › 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 › 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 › Article › peer-review
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 2 Nov 2011.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › 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 › Chapter
  • Published
    Skoulding, Z. C., 11 Apr 2011, In: Translation Studies. 4, 2, p. 183-196
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2004

  • Published
    Skoulding, Z., 1 Jan 2004, Seren.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2025

  • 24 Apr 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)

  • Keynote: What happens when we think of our relation to other species via translation? Is translation a useful model in helping us to conceptualise minoritised perspectives, unheard voices and different kinds of embodiment? Or does translation's emphasis on human language inevitably domesticate our interpretation of other sign systems? This talk and poetry reading will explore possible responses to these questions through a focus on sound and movement on and off the page.

    27 Mar 2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Y Llechan: Hanan Issa Poetry Reading

    25 Mar 2025

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)

  • Talk about the legacy of poet, editor and translator Jerome Rothenberg at Jerome Rothenberg: Anthology as Manifesto, 21-22 March 2025.

    22 Mar 2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Panel discussion at Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters

    9 Feb 2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Poetry reading and multimedia performance with Anita Thampi, Sampurna Chattarji and Catrin Menai

    7 Feb 2025

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Speaker)

2024

  • Poetry reading and discussion

    19 Dec 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • CAInC/ContemPo Biswamit Dwibedy Online Talk: "Les Messageries: Voices from Other Worlds"

    Poetry in the context of US avant-gardes and esoteric traditions.

    5 Dec 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair)

  • ContemPo / CAInC Julia Fiedorczuk: Experimental Ecopoetics and Climate Crisis How can poetry help us with facing climate crisis?

    This event was presented by CAInC, the Centre for Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Collaboration.

    Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator and a professor at Warsaw University where she teaches at the Institute of English Studies and the Environmental Humanities Centre, of which she is also a co-founder. She has won major awards for her novels and poetry, and her work is widely translated. At this event read her poems and discussed the recent Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, of which she is a co-editor.

    25 Nov 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Chair)

  • Public event in Pontio Arts Centre

    19 Nov 2024

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Host)

  • 13 Nov 2024

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Performances at universities and at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul.

    4 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

  • 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 – 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 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 May 2024 – 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 | Zoë 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 | Zoë 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 – 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 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 Aug 2023 – 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 Zoë Skoulding, a poetry workshop with montenegofisher, and augmented reality mapping by Joanna Wright. Organised by Zoë 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’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 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, Montréal

    10 Oct 2022

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • 4 Oct 2022 – 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 – 2 Jul 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 24 Jun 2022 – 25 Jun 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 14 Jun 2022 – 18 Jun 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)

  • 8 Jun 2022 – 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. Such modes are no longer linked to specific avant-garde groupings, but offer a means of exploring potential in language and materials, and relationships to  the 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. How can process-based writing and site-specific performance help us to understand  the 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? 

    Funding awarded through the 鶹 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £33,012

    4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

2021

  • 15 Oct 2021 – 17 Oct 2021

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 4 Oct 2021 – 8 Oct 2021

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 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 May 2021 – 1 Sep 2022

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

  • 01/02/2022 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • 01/09/2020 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • 01/01/2017 – 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.

    Links:

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 鶹 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.