Synopsis
A fold in the map charts two very different voyages - a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty - "before the fold" - the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the title's second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more life-changing than merely moving abroad - a father's illness and death, the loss of some of the plenty of the earlier poems.
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Review
Dixon's gift is in the presentation of such a palpable, earthy presence and its accordant pathos of memory or displacement. -- James Tink, PN Review
Isobel Dixon portrays people and places, and a sense of displacement, in sensuous yet meticulous detail. -- Stewart Conn
She is looking back to something lost, even as she continues to engage in the history of the land where she was born. -- Clive James
About the Author
Isobel Dixon has been described by Clive James as being 'born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech' and by J M Coetzee as 'a poet confident in her mastery of her medium.' Her poems have appeared in publications like The Paris Review, The Guardian, Penguin's Poems for Love and The Forward Book of Poetry. Salt published A Fold in the Map in 2007. www.isobeldixon.com
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