Marginal Sea

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023 A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Môn/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 Malecón /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'). A Marginal Sea is inventive, exhilarating in its soundscapes, and brilliantly awake to otherness, in language, and in the animal and natural world.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-27
Mått135 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt0 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor84
FörlagCarcanet Press Ltd
ISBN9781800172517
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Wales Poetry Book of the Year 2023

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Zoë Skoulding’s six previous collections of poems include A Marginal Sea (Carcanet, 2022), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, following most recently by A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman, 2020) and Footnotes to Water (Seren, 2019), which won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award. She is co-editor, with Katherine M. Hedeen, of Poetry’s Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations (Shearsman, 2022), and her critical publications have explored poetry’s relationships with place, listening, translation and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, and lives on Ynys Môn / Anglesey.

'Zoë Skoulding's magisterial new book A Marginal Sea offers us a pentathlon of innovative forms in which we find expressionist typography, haibun, calendrical prognostications, a poignant soliloquy by the bird-haunted Odysseus, and striking passages of sheer lyric beauty: . . . All the same notesand suddenly it's a different song, the birds with open beaks and a music that would eat me whole. This is a book that makes you feel, as it lengthens your wingspan, glad to be alive.' Forrest Gander