A Marginal Sea

A Marginal Sea
Zoe Skoulding
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Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 64pg
27 Oct 2022 UK
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9781800172517
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A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean - the island is imagined here as a site of archipelagic connection with other places and histories, where the spaces of dream and digital technology are interwoven with the everyday. Skoulding' s poems take their readers into new worlds: we come to terms with the oystercatcher' s ' muscle of belonging' ; we chart the cross-cultural coordinates of ' Newborough Warren with Map of Havana' (' and it' s this way to the Malecon /to look out over the Menai Strait' ); elegy and song overlap in moving poems which think through how we remember and misremember: ' it' s my voice // deepening with others that won' t let themselves / be buried. ' (' Anecdote for the Birds' ). Zoe Skoulding is already an established presence in UK poetry, awarded a Cholmondeley Award in 2018 and the 2020 winner of the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her work has been translated into many languages and her new book, and Carcanet debut, presents wonderfully alert poems, attentive to the world around us and to how we impact upon it: ' when does holding out your hand / become a question' , asks the speaker of ' The Celestial Set-Up' . A Marginal Sea is inventive, exhilarating in its soundscapes, and brilliantly awake to otherness, in language, and in the animal and natural world.
' Skoulding' s magnificent Revolutionary Calendar is very much a book of turns and chart of changes. It is a book for every year' - Lyn Hejinian; ' Zoe Skoulding' s poetry is meditative, a drawing aside of curtains to allow a scene to be discovered to the reader: it seems like an act of instant as if a light is suddenly turned brightly focused upon a moment. This is a poetry to go back to time and time again. ' - Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence
Zoe Skoulding is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her collections of poetry (published by Seren Books) include The Mirror Trade (2004); Remains of a Future City (2008), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year; The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013), shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and Footnotes to Water (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. In 2020 she also published The Celestial Set-Up (Oystercatcher) and A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman). Her critical work includes two monographs, Contemporary Women' s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Poetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric (Liverpool University Press, 2020). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry, and is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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