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A Marginal Sea

  • ISBN-13: 9781800172517
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Zoe Skoulding
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 8 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 03/02/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 122g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Zoe Skouldings new poems take their readers into new worlds: here, we come to terms with the impossible speech of the cormorant, chart the cross-cultural coordinates of Newborough Warren with Map of Havana (and its this way to the Malecon / to look out over the Menai Strait), and in moving poems which think through how we remember and misremember, elegy and song overlap: its my voice / deepening with others that wont 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 18 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.

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 Womens 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.

Skouldings magnificent Revolutionary Calendar is very much a book of turns and chart of changes. It is a book for every year - Lyn Hejinian

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