Oliver Dixon

Oliver Dixon was born in south-east England and after many years in London, now lives in Hertfordshire. He combines a career as a poet and freelance writer with work as a specialist teacher and manager in the field of learning disabilities. His poems and reviews have appeared in places like PN Review, Poetry London and The Sunday Times and his first book of poems Human Form was published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. A poem from this collection was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 2014. His second book, Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?(published by Bowden & Brazil, 2019) comes out of many years of reading and reflecting on philosophy and is intended as an introductory guide for students, as well as those interested in ‘smart thinking’. His most recent book is the ambitious collection of poems Incompletion, published by Vole Books in April 2025.