{"product_id":"the-lives-of-z-olivia-mccannon-9781836243045","title":"The Lives of Z","description":"\u003cp\u003eOlivia McCannon's latest collection is shot through with questions. How ecological is English? How do you read an unreadable world, or a transforming planet?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Z\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventory of poem-artefacts gleaned from the spoilheaps of a speculative future. Each 'find' emerges with the randomness of any archaeological discovery, in that moment when its significance hangs in the air. Except that here, life is growing out of the data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this space of provocation and encounter, the reader is invited to \"play Z's game\" and crash-test different ways of being in language. What will I have been? Who or what owns the 'collective possessive'? How many life forms can inhabit the same pronoun?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZ, the creative principle of life - multitudinous, networked and irreverent - is running the experiment, in an unrepentantly 'bad science' mode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalvaged from what can't be thrown away, these poems meet uncertainty with creativity, searching for the freedom and the words to reclaim human and earthly connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Olivia McCannon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836243049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836243045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.49h x 4.85w x 0.31d","brand":"Olivia McCannon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001783238911,"sku":"9781836243045","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_262dc19c-6370-4b9e-8ce4-96532849fb96.jpg?v=1751602128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lives-of-z-olivia-mccannon-9781836243045","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}