Zoë Skoulding

Katherine M. Hedeen

This anthology, featuring some of the most prominent poet-translators from both sides of the Atlantic, radically foregrounds the role of translators as bridge-builders and activists, with a crucial role in revealing the structures through which poetry moves and circulates. Organized around the translators (rather than the poets), with essays discussing the poetics and politics of their translations, this anthology forms unruly geographical lines of connection rather than underscoring existing national canons—shaping new understandings of contemporary poetry’s transnational commitments.

Born amid the shutting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book celebrates the community of translation—as Skoulding writes in her introduction, a "chance to live in the multiplicity of languages and the spaces of relation that it opens up," and its tangibility and visibility. "Far from the smooth loops and starry clusters of international flight paths, the haphazard map made by these poets emerges erratically from chance encounters, personal synergies, political commitments and tangles of literary influence.”

A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations

Poetry's Geographies

At theintersection between sound studies and new lyric criticism, this book exploresthe social, political and ecological dimensions of contemporary poetry'sacoustic contexts. It discovers how poetry in the UK and USA has beenre-energised by the influence of recorded sound and the creative methods thatemerged with it.

The Noise of Lyric

Poetry and Listening

Ian Davidson

The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is work here from the countries of the United Kingdom, from Ireland, the USA, Australia and mainland Europe. Placing also happens in different contexts, in the Production of visual images, in translation, in performance and in poetry that is both ‘there’ and ‘here’. The range of poets under consideration matches the breadth of the range of the Contributors. International in scope, and drawn from a variety of practices and processes, their combination in a single volume leads to unusual connections and new readings of their work.

Zoë Skoulding

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