Please join us to celebrate the launch of ‘Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?’ by Zoë Skoulding.

The event will be hosted by Mandy Bloomfield. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions.

We will show the text during readings so that you can read along. Registration for this online event will cost £2, redeemable against the cost of the book. You will receive the discount code and instructions for how to purchase the book in your confirmation email as well as during and after the event.

About the Book:

Taking its title from a line in Hôtel du Nord, a 1938 film of doomed romance, Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? brings background into the foreground, and asks us to pay close attention to that which we inhabit and change. In these poems the atmosphere is under our skin and in our bones.

Reviewing Skoulding’s previous collection, Joey Connolly observed that her work is ‘clever, but it is also pleasurable as poetry, and its theory arises from within.’ Here again, Skoulding’s ingenious, innovative forms evoke a natural world newly vulnerable to human actions. Faced with the inseparability of the non-human world from the destructiveness of human activity, these poems trace their connection across times and places: the humble mussel connects the coast of north Wales with fishing communities world-wide, while the calcium of its shell is found in the limestone of the Norman castles that colonised Wales.

About the Author:

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.