Exactly My Own Length (Oxford Poets) - Softcover

Olivia McCannon

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9781906188047: Exactly My Own Length (Oxford Poets)

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ISBN 10: 1906188041 ISBN 13: 9781906188047

Publisher: OxfordPoets, 2011

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Olivia McCannon's first collection explores life on the edge of possibility: in one moment the familiar is blown open, we plunge into the unknown. A chance meeting seals a lifetime; a girl leaps from a window, away from safety she wanted to see what can happen . From families improvising a living space in Cairo s City of the Dead, to a veteran of the Normandy landings coming home to the peaceful reparation of glueing, welding, soldering , life is luminous, and resolutely seized. The closing sequence follows the last months of the poet s mother s life. A journey into grief and loss, it pays tribute to the courage of refusing false comfort, the strength that in the end enables us to live between the lines / of tombs.

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Olivia McCannon was born on Merseyside and is based in Harlesden, London and Belleville, Paris. This is her first collection; her poems have appeared in international and British publications including Modern Poetry in Translation, Penguin s Poems for Life, Poems for Love and the Carcanet OxfordPoets Anthology 2007. She has written lyrics and librettos for composers and singers, and her short fiction has been broadcast on Radio 4. Her translations include Balzac s Old Man Goriot (Penguin Classics, 2011), modern French poetry in Poetry of Place: Paris (Eland, 2012) and contemporary Francophone plays for the Royal Court theatre in London.

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