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Olivia McCannon

Translator, Poet, Reviewer

Olivia McCannon is a writer and literary translator based in Paris and London. A selection of her poems appears in the latest Oxford Poets Anthology (Carcanet, 2007); others have appeared in Penguin's Poems for Life and Poems for Love, the Liberal, the Oxford Magazine, the Wolf, and on Radio 3. She has translated French poetry, French, Lebanese and Cuban plays, and is currently finishing a new version of Balzac's Old Goriot for Penguin Classics. She has recently retired as a Board member of MPT.

Poems & translations

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Robert Desnos Rue Saint-Martin couplets Translated by Olivia McCannon Issue: Series 3 No.15 - Poetry and the State
Paul Éluard Courage Translated by Olivia McCannon Issue: Series 3 No.15 - Poetry and the State
Jean Follain Seven Poems Translated by Olivia McCannon Issue: Series 3 No. 5 - Transgressions
Olivia McCannon Ten Poems Issue: Series 3 No.11 - Frontiers
Olivia McCannon Three Poems Issue: Series 3 No. 2 - Diaspora
Louise Michel Paris Translated by Olivia McCannon Issue: Series 3 No.15 - Poetry and the State

reviews & features

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Tristan Corbière Wry-Blue Loves: Les Amours Jaunes and Other Poems Translated by Peter Dale Published by Anvil Press Poetry Ltd, London 2005, ISBN 0-85646-377-9, £14.95Reviewed by Olivia McCannon Issue: Series 3 No. 5

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