- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Salt Publishing (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844713962
- ISBN-13: 978-1844713967
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,391,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More understated but no less powerful than both of these collections [Sophie Hannah Pessimism for Beginners, Frances Leviston Public Dream] is Isobel Dixon's A Fold in the Map (Salt, £12.99), which includes a poignant retelling of her father's illness and decline. Dixon's own graceful style provides soothing contrast to the bewilderment and indignity her father suffers. (Natalie Whittle FT Weekend Magazine )
Isobel Dixon is fully in command of the poetic tools at her disposal. In her hands form and content intertwine naturally, never allowing the reader's attention to wane. Intelligent and sensuous, Dixon's poetry has the wonderful quality of being able to hold the essence of a variety of moods, places and people, which many readers, whether poetry lovers or not, will find engrossing. (Karina Magdalena Szczrek Sunday Independent (South Africa) )
Isobel Dixon is fully in command of the poetic tools at her disposal. In her hands form and content intertwine naturally, never allowing the reader's attention to wane. Intelligent and sensuous, Dixon's poetry has the wonderful quality of being able to hold the essence of a variety of moods, places and people, which many readers, whether poetry lovers or not, will find engrossing. (Karina Magdalena Szczrek Sunday Independent (South Africa) )
Stewart Conn
Isobel Dixon portrays people and places, and a sense of displacement, in sensuous yet meticulous detail.
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Moving and poignant,
By A reader "A reader" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Fold in the Map (Salt Modern Poets) (Hardcover)
Having read the poems I then had the pleasure of seeing the poet perform a selection.
Dixon has a haunting, memorable turn of phrase and I found reading several of them made me quite emotional. At times nostalgic, at times bitter-sweet, the overall tone is very affecting. The two parts of the collection recall different events we can all relate to - leaving home, and in this case your home country, and the passing of a much-loved parent. These poems can be read over and over whilst still finding new meaning every time.
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Gorgeous and heartbreaking,
By Mary Akers - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Fold in the Map (Salt Modern Poets) (Paperback)
I fell into this collection and didn't want to resurface. The poems of homage to her father and the lush descriptions of the natural world captivated me and held me in their thrall.
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