Remains of a Future City
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Remains of a Future City by Zoe Skoulding
Vibrant and multilayered, this collection of poems takes the imagined city as its inspiration, but is equally open to the suggestions offered by keenly observed details. The natural world and the multiple variations of the built environment--from cathedrals to construction sites--hint at utopia, but the future city is haunted by its ruins. New relationships emerge from the shared fractures of a European past and the global communications of the 21st century. These possibilities are felt on a local scale, often from the perspective of a walker in the city, as poetic form is constantly reinvented in the shape of a wandering journey from one quarter to the next.
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 | 9781854114754 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854114751 |
| Title | Remains of a Future City |
| Author | Zoe Skoulding |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2008-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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