Footnotes to Water

£9.99

Zoe Skoulding

Poet Zo Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bivre in Paris, and tracks the literary hoofprints of sheep through Welsh mountains. In these journeys she reveals urban and rural locales as sites of lively interconnection, exploring the ways in which place shapes and is shaped by language.

In stock

SKU: 9781781725269 Category: Tag:

Description

Footnotes to Water imagines a river as a transverse section, cutting through urban and rural spaces, connecting places that are themselves in flux. Zoë Skoulding follows the mysterious path of the culverted Afon Adda in Bangor, close to where she lives, as it draws her into conversations with the city as well as with the sound of the river itself, half-heard under the metal plates of the observation chambers along its route. It leads her to the Bièvre, a lost Parisian stream that once ran through streets of tanneries and past the Gobelins tapestry factory, where the quality of a famous red dye was attributed to the river’s polluted water. Following literary traces as well as landscapes, a sequence on hefting sheep links the two rivers, extending the idea of local habitat or cynefin to encompass the interweaving lives of different cultures and species.

Additional information

Weight 108 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Seren

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

68

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K