Isobel Dixon (born 1969) is a South African poet. She is also a literary agent based in London.
LifeBorn 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. Her poem "Plenty" now features in the CIE GCSE English Language Course as part of the poetry anthology.
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.[1][2]
Collections- Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001) Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- A Fold in the Map (Salt Publishing, 2007)
- The Tempest Prognosticator (Salt Publishing, 2011) Archived 8 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- The Debris Field, with Simon Barraclough and Chris McCabe (Sidekick Books, 2013) Archived 22 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ British Council Literature. Retrieved 3 June 2008. Archived 4 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Poetry International Web - South Africa. South Africa Poetry International Archived 6 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Isobel Dixon.com
- Review of A Fold in the Map, The Sunday Independent
