Olivia McCannon is currently completing a new translation of Balzac’s Old Goriot for Penguin Classics. Her poetry appears in the latest Carcanet Oxford Poets Anthology and Penguin’s Poems for Life.
Olivia McCannon
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)