Olivia McCannon
Writer | Translator (French) | Dr
Creativity, feminism, ecology
The Lives of Z (Pavilion Poetry, 2025)
- Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivia McCannon‘it's easy to imagine The Lives of Z joining the likes of Christensen's alphabet (1981) as an essential text ecopoetry for years to come‘ Wonderful review of ‘Lives of Z’ by @oliviamcc.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social in this issue of Poetry Review
- Last day of the @asleuki.bsky.social conf in Galway! Thank you to all those who came to Tuesday's panel on poetry and erosion with the fabulous duo of @jrcarpenter.bsky.social and @kate-elspeth.bsky.social (plus zI). May the conversations continue!
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- Reposted by Olivia McCannonSorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- I'm so grateful to Linda France for her brilliant substack article featuring The Lives of Z (in amazingly good company!) 😊🙏 lindafrance.substack.com/p/building-w...
- Reposted by Olivia McCannon“Nothing undermines climate resilience in this country as much as the private ownership of our water system, and nothing reveals the drought of political ambition like the refusal to renationalise it.” Spot on @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇
- Reposted by Olivia McCannon"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin
- Brilliant keynote by Rachael Allen on Poetry of (ecological) epiphany at LABRC ecopoetics conf yesterday - 'what is the power of epiphany and to whom does it belong?' Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sylvia Legris and 'the distrust of a singular agency in poetry'.... @labrc.bsky.social
- A wall poster from @oliviamcc.bsky.social launch of The Lives of Z @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social a really beautiful evening for an exceptional book that offers both reviving wisdom and playful possibilities for a future tense we’ve lost hope in.
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- Powerful stuff from @sashadugdale.bsky.social In the dirty fire of the great poets / there are lines of such naturalness / that when you have torched the source / you too must end in wordlessness.
- The book and I travelling to Liverpool for the @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social launch tonight with @munozpoems.bsky.social and Sarah Corbett! @notjustdancing.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Olivia McCannon'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians
- Details of the Pavilion Poetry launch for this year's books... I am so excited that The Lives of Z will be part of it! @notjustdancing.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
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