| Intro | South African poet |
| Is |
Poet Writer |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1969, Mthatha, South Africa |
| Age: | 51 years |
Isobel Dixon (born 1969) is a South African poet.
Life
Born and raised in South Africa and living now in Cambridge, England, Isobel Dixon works in London as a literary agent. She has published several poetry collections and contributed to many collaborative works and 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.
Collections
- Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001)
- A Fold in the Map (Salt Publishing, 2007)
- The Tempest Prognosticator (Salt Publishing, 2011)
- The Debris Field, with Simon Barraclough and Chris McCabe (Sidekick Books, 2013)