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Olivia McCannon
@oliviamcc.bsky.social
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
Poetry Book Launch | Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
Join us online for an evening of poetry celebrating publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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‘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
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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!
August 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

@asleuki.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Sorry 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...
Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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...
Building Worlds
…we can live together in
lindafrance.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“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 👇
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"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
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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
July 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
July 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I wrote a book about the named winds of Europe. Now the Met Office are inviting the public to name upcoming storms, made likelier by fossil-fuel-driven climate change. A campaign is underway to name the next five BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Do so here... www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Name our Storms
www.metoffice.gov.uk
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Olivia McCannon offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Lives of Z, playful and provocative poems asking, how ecological is English?

Find out more:
bit.ly/LivesofZblog
April 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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"Giving birth in England is not safe. Half of all maternity units are rated either inadequate or requiring improvement."

🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social: The birth trauma taboo
The birth trauma taboo
Theo Clarke’s book paints a damning picture of Britain’s failing maternity services. Change cannot come soon enough.
www.newstatesman.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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.
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The book and I travelling to Liverpool for the @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social launch tonight with @munozpoems.bsky.social and Sarah Corbett! @notjustdancing.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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A copy should be on every desk, not just in the Home Office but throughout government. A bold, brave and hugely timely book 👇
My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.

You can pre-order from
Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV
Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h
Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8
April 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Sarah Corbett offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Ishtar Gate, where the poetry of witness and memorial meets the search for connection.

Find out more:
bit.ly/TIshtarGate
April 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dmz-...
April 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Theresa Muñoz offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives.

Find out more here:
bit.ly/ArchivumBlog
April 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Today's Rare Earth (on air at noon) is all about concrete. We associate it with solidity and reliability, but also with being the scourge of the natural world. It has a huge environmental cost, so what does the future hold? And what might a concrete-free world look like?
www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Set in Concrete
Our civilisation is based on concrete. Can we build in a cleaner way?
www.bbc.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9
March 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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'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
The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM