Footnotes to Water by Zoe Skoulding
Footnotes to Water imagines a river as a transverse section, cutting through urban and rural spaces, connecting places that are themselves in flux. Zoë Skoulding follows the mysterious path of the culverted Afon Adda in Bangor, close to where she lives, as it draws her into conversations with the city as well as with the sound of the river itself, half-heard under the metal plates of the observation chambers along its route. It leads her to the Bièvre, a lost Parisian stream that once ran through streets of tanneries and past the Gobelins tapestry factory, where the quality of a famous red dye was attributed to the river’s polluted water. Following literary traces as well as landscapes, a sequence on hefting sheep links the two rivers, extending the idea of local habitat or cynefin to encompass the interweaving lives of different cultures and species.
Zoë Skoulding is primarily a poet, although her work encompasses sound-based vocal performance, collaboration, translation, literary criticism, editing, and teaching creative writing. She is Reader in the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Bangor University. She is the author of a number of poetry collections, including ‘The Museum of Disappearing Sounds’ (Seren) which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award, and ‘Remains of a Future City’, (Seren) which was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781725269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781725268 |
| Title | Footnotes to Water |
| Author | Zoe Skoulding |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2019-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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