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Zoë Skoulding

Building Site

  • 1 Building Site | Translations: decsslfres
  • 2 Tower | Translations: decsbs
  • 3 You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral | Translations: decsslfrbsno
  • 4 The Old Walls | Translations: decsfrno
  • 5 The Building Constructed from its Own Fall | Translations: decsfrno
  • 6 Castle | Translations: debsfr
  • 7 The New Bridge | Translations: deslfr
  • 8 The House Where it is Impossible Not to Fall in Love | Translations: bsdefres
  • 9 Astrolaire | Translations: defrnoes
  • 10 Underpass | Translations: debsfr
Language: english
Translations: german (Baugelände), czech (Staveniště), slovenian (Gradbišče), french (Chantier de construction), spanish (Obra)
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Building Site

Between the buildings
                                    trees reach down
            to languages
                                    of soil and worms,
                                               leaves gloss argots of glass and steel;
            woods lie down on floors
                                                          to bounce back
every word,     every word
                                               you speak
with the long
            echo of your footsteps down into the mud.

In simultaneous decay and growth
                                                          this maze of streets and squares
puts down its roots,
                       unsettling the ground
                                               with every new inflection, every
demolition: first the trees, then the wooden
                                               houses, bricks, the broken concrete.
Look,
            now you can see in the ruins how
                                    buildings took hold and pushed up
            through your bones, rubble, walls of earth,
                                               this tangle of useless pipes.

© Zoë Skoulding
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2009

Translations:

Language: german

Baugelände

Zwischen den Gebäuden
greifen Bäume nach unten
zu Sprachen
aus Erde und Würmern,
das Laub stilisiert den Jargon von Glas und Stahl;
Hölzer legen sich auf Böden
um jedes Wort
jedes Wort,  das du sagst
zurückzuschmettern
mit dem langen
Echo deiner Fußstapfen, tiefer in den Schlamm.

Bei gleichzeitigem Verfall und Wachstum
schlägt dieser Irrgarten aus Straßen und Plätzen
seine Wurzeln,
den Grund aufwühlend
mit jeder neuen Beugung, jedem
Abriss: erst die Bäume, dann die Holzhäuser,
Ziegel, die Betontrümmer.
Schau,
nun kannst du in den Ruinen sehen wie
Gebäude Stand fanden, durch deine Knochen
hochzogen, Schutt, Erdwälle,
dieses Knäuel unnützer Rohre.

Übersetzung: Monika Rinck
Language: czech

Staveniště

Mezi budovami
stromy sahají dolů
k řeči
hlíny a červů,
v listí se blyští argoty ze skla a oceli;
lesy leží na podlahách
a odrážejí
každé slovo  každé slovo
které řekneš
s táhlou
ozvěnou tvých kroků do bláta.
V současném rozkladu i růstu
toto bludiště ulic a náměstí
zapouští kořeny
rozrušuje zemi
s každým novým ohýbáním, s každou
demolicí: nejprve stromy, potom dřevěné
domy, cihly, popraskaný beton.
Podívej,
teď v těch troskách vidíš, jak
se domy uchytily a prorostly
skrz tvé kosti, suť, stěny země
tuto spleť zbytečných trubek.

Překlad: Eva Klimentova
Language: slovenian

Gradbišče

Med stavbami se drevesa nagibajo navzdol
                             do jezikov zemlje in deževnikov,
ampak listi loščijo sleng
                                             stekla in jekla;
na tleh je položen les
                                             da vrača
vsako besedo  vsako besedo
                                             ki jo izrečeš
z dolgim
               drgetom tvojih stopinj
                                                    v blato.

V sočasnem razpadanju in rasti
                               labirint ulic in trgov
razprede svoje korenine,
                                       vznemiri tla
                             z vsakim novim odmikom, z vsakim
uničenjem: najprej drevesa, potem lesene
                                              hiše, opeke, razpokan beton.
Poglej,
            zdaj lahko v ruševinah vidiš, kako
                                   so se zgradbe prijele in vzpele navzgor
            skozi tvoje kosti, ostanke, plasti zemlje,
                                          to zavozlanje neuporabnih cevi.

prevedel Gregor Podlogar
Language: french

Chantier de construction

Entre les immeubles
                                   des arbres se penchent
            vers des langages
                                   de sol et de vers de terre,
                                               des feuilles reflètent des argots de verre et d’acier;
            des pièces de bois reposent sur des planchers
                                                           afin de faire rebondir
chaque mot     chaque mot
                                               que vous prononcez
avec le long
            écho de vos pas dans la boue.

Dans un mélange simultané de délabrement et de croissance
                                                           ce labyrinthe de rues et de squares
plante ses racines
            en bouleversant le sol
                                   avec chaque intonation nouvelle, chaque
démolition: d’abord les arbres, puis les maisons
                                   de bois, les briques, le béton cassé.
Regardez,
            maitenant vous pouvez voir dans les ruines comment
                        les immeubles se sont ancrés et ont grandi
            à travers vos os, vos décombres, vos parois de terre,
                                   ce fouillis de tuyaux inutiles.

Translation: Émile & Nicole Martel
Emile Martel
Nicole Martel
Language: spanish

Obra

Entre los edificios
                                los árboles se extienden hacia abajo
los lenguajes
                                   de la tierra y las lombrices,
            las hojas glosan la jerga del cristal y el acero;
            los bosques yacen sobre los pisos
                                                                       para rebotar
cada palabra, cada palabra
                                               que dices
con el largo
                     eco de tus pasos que descienden en el lodo.

En deterioro y crecimiento simultáneos
                                                           este laberinto de calles y plazas
echa raíces
                    trastornando el suelo
                                                          con cada nueva inflexión, cada
derribamiento: primero los árboles, luego las casas
de madera, los ladrillos, el concreto rajado.
Mira,
         ahora puedes ver en las ruinas cómo
los edificios se agarraron y se te subieron
por los huesos, los escombros, las paredes de tierra,
                                                           este enredo de tubos inútiles.

Traducción de Katherine Hedeen y Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
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Zoë Skoulding

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* 18.11.1967, Bradford, United Kingdom
lives in: Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

Zoë Skoulding (born in Bradford, 1967) has lived in north Wales since 1991. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013), while Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008) was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009. She also translates poetry, writes literary criticism, and was the editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales 2008-2014. She is Senior Lecturer at Bangor University.

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She is interested in relationships between poetry, sound and music, often performing her work in collaboration with musicians. 

Publications
  • Tide Table

    Gwasg Pantycelyn, 1998

  • The Mirror Trade

    Seren, 2004

  • Dark Wires

    [with Ian Davidson]

    West House Books, 2007

  • Remains of a Future City

    Seren, 2008

  • From Here

    with images by Simonetta Moro

    Dusie, 2008

  • You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral

    This features a CD with soundscapes by Alan Holmes and Czech/German translation

    2009, 2009

  • The Museum of Disappearing Sounds

    Seren, 2013

Links
  • Homepage of Zoë Skoulding

    Website (en)
  • Metropoetica

    Metropoetica is a collaboration of women writing and walking in different cities across Europe

    Website (en)
  • Zoë Skoulding @ Wikipedia

    Website
  • Zoë Skoulding @ Poetry International Rotterdam

    Website

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