BEARINGS

84pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Cape Town, 2016

First published in the UK in 2016.

A fourth collection of poetry by Isobel Dixon, author of "Weather Eye" winner of the Olive Schreiner prize, "A Fold in the Map" and "The Tempest Prognosticator".

"With every airport lounge a new starting point, Isobel DIxon's poetry is truly an international event. Her work is a perpetual transformation, inexhaustible even though everything in it can be said aloud, and indeed demands to be. There is something new under the sun on every page." Clive James

"A poet confident in her mastery of her medium." J.M. Coetzee

Isobel Dixon was born in Mthatha and grew up in Graaff-Reinet. She studied in Edinburgh and lives in London, returning frequently to her family home in the Karoo.