Centre for Poetry and Poetics: Zoë Skoulding - Mendoza - Harriet Tarlo

Name: Centre for Poetry and Poetics: Zoë Skoulding - Mendoza - Harriet Tarlo
Start: 2025-02-27T18:00:00+00:00
Location: The Diamond, University of Sheffield

Schedule

Thu Feb 27 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Diamond, University of Sheffield | Sheffield, EN

Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, Presents:
CPP/UoS Launch of Cut Flowers 2, Guillemot Press, 2024 by Harriet Tarlo
27th of February, 6pm
Diamond, Lecture Theatre 2, University of Sheffield

Zoë Skoulding - Mendoza - Harriet Tarlo
Mendoza is a Northumbrian poet and researcher. They describe their creative practice as ‘frass’, from the German word fressen, which means "to devour"; collecting, hoarding and (metaphorically) consuming found entomological texts, they reconstitute these texts as poetry, mapping the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking, de-constructing & (re)constructing the ‘self’ through the language of insects as a necessary act of nonconformity.

Zoë Skoulding:

Publications include: “WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths” collaboration with Peter Manson: Materials, 2018; “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside, 2015 and “Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug”, Contraband, 2014. Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry is published with Shearsman Press, Etruscan books and Guillemot Press. She collaborated for over ten years with the artist Judith Tucker, exhibiting widely here and abroad and publishing five artists’ books with Wild Pansy Press. Her most recent publications are Cut Flowers I and II (2021, 2024); with Judith Tucker, Saltwort (2022) and with Kym Martindale, Spillways (2022). She edited the influential anthology The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). She is a Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University.