Isobel Dixon

Isobel Dixon (born 1969) is a South African poet.

Life

Born and raised in South Africa and living now in Cambridge, Isobel Dixon works in London as a literary agent, She has published several anthologies. In 2000 she won the South African SANLAM Award for Poetry. In 2004 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize and the Oxfam Poems for a Better Future competition. She was commissioned to write poems by the British Film Institute in 2007. [ [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1123b1C35CMuN1824B30 British Council Literature. Retrieved June 3, 2008] [ [http://southafrica.poetryinternationalweb.org] South Africa Poetry International]

Poems

(I want) something to show for it
Back in the benighted kingdom
Plenty
She comes swimming
The growing gift
Valentine

Collections

* Weather eye (2001)
* A fold in the map (2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.isobeldixon.com Isobel Dixon.com]
* [http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4258242 Review of "A fold in the map"] "The Sunday Independent"

Persondata
NAME=Dixon, Isobel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=South African poet
DATE OF BIRTH=1969
PLACE OF BIRTH=Umtata, South Africa
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=