Home » Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?
Product Image

Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?

Zoe Skoulding
€18.50
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
21st Century
A01=Zoe Skoulding
Author_Zoe Skoulding
British
Category=DCC
Category=DCF
Category=FXE
Climate
Ecology
Ecopoetry
Ecosystems
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
Female
History
Nature
Poet
Poetry
Wales
Welsh
Woman
Women

Product details

  • ISBN 9781800175389
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2026
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

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 evokea 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 Zoe Skoulding
Zoe 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 Mon / Anglesey.

More from this author