Zoë Skoulding

Castle

Language: english
Translations: german (Burg), bosnian (Zamak), french (Château)

Castle

all defences rise in a few straight lines
     all sprung with traps
a curtain tower edging into weather
     foundations in rock
the walls run with drops of green
     as the sides of a glass
resist the flanking fire the enemy
     deflected in mirrors arrow slits
loopholes of light the glint of an eye
     sweat on skin trust me
as winter comes through walls of
     these foreign stones another
country coming through the cracks
     the ramparts wind around
the wind passing on her breath is
     safety durability and strength
will laugh a siege to scorn
     the oak door booms an entrance
above the shopping mall above the stability
     of violence trust me forever

Zoë Skoulding

photo © gezett.de
* 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.

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

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