A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoë Skoulding Blue Diode stalked by loss and extinction

stalked by loss and extinction - that make up a life

”  Tim Liardet

While documenting the challenges faced by writers from elsewhere

With every airport lounge a new starting point

tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 in which thirteen young black people were killed in a house fire – and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017

A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoë Skoulding Blue Diode stalked by loss and extinctionThe French Republican Calendar, in use from 1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre dglantine renamed the months after seasons, while each day, instead of being dedicated to a saint, was dedicated to a plant, animal, mineral or agricultural tool. These names are the starting point for the poems of A Revolutionary Calendar, in which