My new collection The Tempest Prognosticator is published by Salt in the UK and Random Umuzi in South Africa. My earlier collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa. You can read more about these books and other publications here, along with poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings and workshops coming up - details here.
The Debris Field: Salvaging the Titanic in Word, Sound & Image - Centenary Premiere at BFI Southbank, 14 April 2012. Details & bookings here, and watch the haunting trailer here.
Julian Sands on BBC R4 & audio of 'Toktokkie' &'valentine'
Video of Nelson Mandela Day, the British Museum, July 2010.
British Council Contemporary Writers Site.
Some Reviews -
The Tempest Prognosticator:
'Isobel Dixon's Strange New World' on Slipnet
'A Rich Reward for Poetry Readers', SA Independent
A Fold in the Map:
42 Somerset Street
In our wayward garden
wild and lovely, weeds and roses
rambling, laughter looped
around the branches and the boles,
we, legs lime-tree scratched
and fingertips dark mulberried,
moved light among the earth and leafmould scent,
the taste of sourgrass tanged against the tongue.
Hiding, seeking
never lost
for words, for games,
adult-echoing, we played
our wars, built cities, captained ships,
learned to trade and barter
snailshells, rosehips, old pine cones
for pink quartz stones
and old blue chips
of lost ancestral china.
Mothers calling into dusk
can never hold such sway
as that sweet smell of fresh-cut grass
or lighted kitchen window
as our fragrant heaped-up castles.
Published in Weather Eye (Carapace Poets, 2001).