You are more than welcome to join the BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries on a monthly workshop / reading series across 2025 in collaboration with the UU’s Network for Environmental Humanities, which will feature workshops followed by public readings

You are more than welcome to join the BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries on a monthly workshop / reading series across 2025 in collaboration with the UU’s Network for Environmental Humanities, which will feature workshops followed by public readings and discussions by international writers working at the intersection of language justice and climate justice through ecopoetics, translation and translanguaging.

Poet, translator and scholar Zoë Skoulding (Bangor University) on "Sounding movement: translation and multispecies encounter”

What happens when we think of our relation to other species via translation? Is translation a useful model in helping us to conceptualise minoritised perspectives, unheard voices and different kinds of embodiment? Or does translation's emphasis on human language inevitably domesticate our interpretation of other sign systems? This talk and poetry reading will explore possible responses to these questions through a focus on sound and movement on and off the page.

Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems is A Marginal Sea (Carcanet Press, 2022). Her previous collections (published by Seren Books) include The Mirror Trade (2004); Remains of a Future City (2008), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year; The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013), shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and Footnotes to Water (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. In 2020 she also published The Celestial Set-Up (Oystercatcher) and A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry. Her critical work includes two monographs, Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (2013), and Poetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric (2020).

⁠ ⁠This reading/talk is also the keynote to a day-long symposium, "Nothing in Words Is Complete:” Multispecies, Multilingual Poetics, by the RMA CLS students in the masterclasses of Kári Driscoll (The Poetics of Animality) and Mia You (The Language of Empire) – Amapola Alonso, Joska Hendrikx, Roos Kreeft, Sara Vermeer, Trisha Bhaya, Tessa Hölscher and Shupei Pan – as well as visiting PhD researchers Ido Fuchs, Anna Potoczny, and Kennedy Dragt. The symposium will take place on the same day, 10-17:00 in Drift 27, Room 072.