Olivia McCannon
@oliviamcc.bsky.social
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Writer | Translator (French) | Dr Creativity, feminism, ecology The Lives of Z (Pavilion Poetry) - out April 2025
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Congratulations Sasha! A well-deserved win for a truly extraordinary book. 👏👏👏
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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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christabelscaife.bsky.social
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
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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
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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
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emilylhauser.bsky.social
"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
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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
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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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Thank you for those beautiful words and for your presence last night ❤️ I’d like to credit Jo Morgan for his typesetting design which brings Z to life on the page and in this poster.
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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
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pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
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
A  graphic features a black-and-white portrait of poet Olivia McCannon. Above, the Liverpool University Press logo appears. Below, a quote from McCannon discusses her poetic inspiration for The Lives of Z. The background is light pink with dark green borders and white text.
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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
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davidho.bsky.social
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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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.
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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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A copy should be on every desk, not just in the Home Office but throughout government. A bold, brave and hugely timely book 👇
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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
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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
An image featuring a black-and-white portrait of poet Sarah Corbett. The background is dark blue with a white border and with the white Liverpool University Press logo. Below the image is a quote from Corbett about The Ishtar Gate, reflecting on poetry’s role in exploring personal and collective experience beyond politics or historical narrative.
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andotherstories.bsky.social
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-...
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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
Black-and-white photo of poet Theresa Muñoz wearing a coat. Pink background with text about her poetry. Quote: “I have always been drawn to write poems about objects…” Logos of Liverpool University Press and a white Pavilion dome icon.
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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
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emergencemagazine.bsky.social
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
A cloud forest from below looking up at the canopy fading into the fog and tall tree trunks covered in a multitude of moss and plants.
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