Review:
Isobel Dixon is fully in command of the poetic tools at her disposal. In her hands form and content intertwine naturally, never allowing the reader's attention to wane. Intelligent and sensuous, Dixon's poetry has the wonderful quality of being able to hold the essence of a variety of moods, places and people, which many readers, whether poetry lovers or not, will find engrossing. -- Karina Magdalena Szczrek * Sunday Independent (South Africa) * More understated but no less powerful than both of these collections [Sophie Hannah Pessimism for Beginners, Frances Leviston Public Dream] is Isobel Dixon's A Fold in the Map (Salt, GBP12.99), which includes a poignant retelling of her father's illness and decline. Dixon's own graceful style provides soothing contrast to the bewilderment and indignity her father suffers. -- Natalie Whittle * FT Weekend Magazine * Poems that bring a sensual physicality together with lively, startling imagery. * Mail and Guardian, South Africa * Isobel Dixon portrays people and places, and a sense of displacement, in sensuous yet meticulous detail. In these poems she celebrates creatures and landscapes in contrasting climates and cultures, her sharp perceptions invested with yearning and humour - and an aura of wonder. -- Stewart Conn ... a contemporary, accessible lyricism. ... characterised by sensuous natural imagery ... 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 *
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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