Zoë Skoulding’s soundscapes: towards a lyric ecology

Selby, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5255-0421 (2027) Zoë Skoulding’s soundscapes: towards a lyric ecology. In: Tongue and Terrain. Culture - Envronment - Society. Humanities and beyond . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-7370-2080-0 (In Press)

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Abstract

This essay examines Zoë Skoulding’s poetics of the soundscape across three collections — Remains of a Future City (2008), The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013), and A Marginal Sea (2022) — arguing that her work constitutes a distinctive lyric ecology. Drawing on R. Murray Schafer’s concept of the soundscape, Timothy Morton’s ecological thought, and Jane Bennett’s vibrant materialism, the essay contends that Skoulding’s experimental lyric practice enacts attentive listening to the entangled relations between poem, body, and environment. Through analysis of her deployment of noise, birdsong, polyphony, and Situationist-inflected techniques of détournement and dérive, the essay demonstrates how Skoulding’s soundscapes bridge the human and the non-human in a mode of eco-poiesis.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Legible / Visible Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2026 16:19
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2026 16:19
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104584
DOI:	isbn:978-3-7370-2080-0

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