Isobel Dixon

Biography

Isobel Dixon was born in 1969 in Mthatha, South Africa. A poet and literary agent based in London, she has published several poetry collections and contributed to many collaborative works and anthologies. Her poem "Plenty" is featured in the CIE GCSE English Language Course poetry anthology. Her debut collection, Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001), won the Sanlam and Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her subsequent collections, A Fold in the Map and The Tempest Prognosticator, originally published by Salt, were both republished by Nine Arches in 2018. Her collection Bearings was published by Modjaji in South Africa and Nine Arches in the UK (2016), and Mariscat published her pamphlet The Leonids (2016). Nine Arches will publish her next collections, A Whistling of Birds in 2023 and The Landing in 2025.

Birth Date

1969-01-01

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

South Africa

Country of Residence

England

Languages Spoken

English

University of Edinburgh

Poems

Dixon, Isobel. "Bede's Sparrow." _The New Statesman_, www.newstatesman.com/culture/poetry-culture/2022/05/the-ns-poem-bedes-sparrow. Accessed 1 August 2024.

Dixon, Isobel. "Sweet Violet."_ Bad Lilies, _www.badlilies.uk/isobel-dixon. Accessed 1 August 2024.

Poetry Collections

Dixon, Isobel. _A Whistling of Birds_. Nine Arches.

Dixon, Isobel. _Bearings_. Nine Arches (UK) and Modjaji (South Africa).

Dixon, Isobel. _Tempest Prognosticator_. Salt, UK, 2011 and SA, Random Umuzi, 2011.

Dixon, Isobel. _Weather Eye_. Carapace, 2001.

Dixon, Isobel. _A Fold in the Map. _Salt, UK, 2007; SA: Jacana 2007.

Speeches, Lectures, Interviews, Performances / Critical Articles, Media

"Isobel Dixon." _Poetry Archive_, https://poetryarchive.org/poet/isobel-dixon/. Accessed 1 August 2024.

Sources

"Isobel Dixon." Blake Friedmann, http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/isobel-dixon. Accessed 1 August 2024.

"Isobel Dixon." Isobel Dixon, http://www.isobeldixon.com/about-me. Accessed 1 August 2024.

"Isobel Dixon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Dixon. Accessed 28 October 2024.