A Revolutionary Calendar
Published on 28. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-84861-690-5 (ISBN)
Description
This year-long sequence of five-line poems takes as its point of departure the French Republican Calendar, devised by the poet Fabre d'Eglantine with the aim of breaking the power of the Church and returning symbolic importance to the agricultural worker. It featured months renamed after the seasons, and days that, instead of being dedicated to saints, were each devoted to a plant, animal, mineral or agricultural implement.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
201 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-690-5 (9781848616905)
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Zoe Skoulding is primarily a poet, though her work encompasses sound-based vocal performance, collaboration, translation, literary criticism, editing, and teaching creative writing. Her publications include This Way Under (Seren, 2019). Teint (Hafan Books, 2016), The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013 - shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry), Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). In 2018 she received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors for her work in poetry.
She is Reader in the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Bangor University, where she ran the network Poetry in Expanded Translation. Her monograph Experimental Cities: Contemporary Women's Poetry and the City was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. She was Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales from 2008 to 2014 and co-founded the (North) Wales International Poetry Festival in 2012.
She is Reader in the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Bangor University, where she ran the network Poetry in Expanded Translation. Her monograph Experimental Cities: Contemporary Women's Poetry and the City was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. She was Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales from 2008 to 2014 and co-founded the (North) Wales International Poetry Festival in 2012.