REVIEW by Kym Martindale
NWR Issue 100The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
by Zoë Skoulding
Several years ago, I presented a conference paper with what I thought was the satisfyingly witty title ‘Entitled to Mean’. Its thrust was the significance of titles – chiefly of poems. It is therefore important to me that Skoulding calls her new collection
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds, but the poem that names the collection is called ‘The Museum
for Disappearing Sounds’ (my emphasis). This is a difference which resonates throughout the collection, which is profoundly concerned with accent and nuance, the way in which a shift of tone or punctuation can bring about an eddy of change. These shifts, like currents of air or dust, seem small, but they are not...
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