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Exactly My Own LengthOlivia McCannon10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, First Collections, Women
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Oct 2012) 9781847777003 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (64 pages) (Pub. Nov 2011) 9781906188047 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Winner of the 2012 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collections Prize 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’.
Liverpool Echo
City of the Dead Dust Mirror Map Cohabitation Paper Tiger Jubilee Portraits No. 3 Probability Argyle Street, 1983 Barometer Unborn Light-Stone The Offer Ironing Map of the Moor Hope Street, 1966 Retirement Month of Herons Exactly My Own Length Book of Hours Laughter Sick World At the Door Honouring the Dead You Said This The Weight of Life The Lovelace Place No More Fields Stewed Fruit A Request to the Cranes Landing Light Vigil What To Do With a Baby Fragile Domain Conversation Nothing I Can Do All Souls’ Day Memorial Last and First
Awards won by Olivia McCannon
Winner, 2012 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collections Prize
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