A Marginal Sea by Zoë Skoulding #PBSChristmas always looking towards ‘the furthest

always looking towards ‘the furthest we can see

In this polymorphous text pleasure and pain coexist

to look anywhere else

The highly sensuous poems from the early collections set the scene for a body of work where sight and touch and smell are often invoked and where intense moments or intimate states are exposed by flashes of light or by dramatic physical contrast

A Marginal Sea by Zoë Skoulding #PBSChristmas always looking towards ‘the furthestA Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mn Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean the island is imagined here as a site of archipelagic connection with other places and histories, where the spaces of dream and digital technology are interwoven with the everyday. Skouldings poems take their readers into new worlds: we come to terms with the oystercatchers muscle of belonging; we chart