A Fold in the Map E-Book

Isobel Dixon

• Herausgeber: Nine Arches Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

A Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty — "before the fold" — the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the book's second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more life-changing than merely moving abroad — a father's illness and death, the loss of some of the plenty of the earlier poems.

Leseprobe

A Fold in the Map

Also by Isobel Dixon

Weather Eye

The Tempest Prognosticator

The Debris Field

(with Simon Barraclough & Chris McCabe)

Bearings

The Leonids

A Fold in the Map

Isobel Dixon

ISBN: 978-1-911027-14-0

eISBN: 978-1-913437-84-8

Copyright © Isobel Dixon, 2007, 2018

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Isobel Dixon has asserted her right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

First published by Salt Publishing in the United Kingdom in 2007, re-issued July 2018 by:

Nine Arches Press

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Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre,

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Printed in the United Kingdom by Lightning Source

Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

For my mother

&

in memory of my father,

who loved a good map.

And with love and thanks

to Jan

who brought my passport

when it mattered most.

About the Author

Isobel Dixon was born in Mthatha and grew up in the Karoo region of South Africa, where her debut collection Weather Eye won the Olive Schreiner Prize. She studied in Edinburgh and now works in London. Nine Arches published her fourth collection Bearings, as well as new editions of A Fold in the Map and The Tempest Prognosticator. She often collaborates with artists, musicians and other poets and has been involved in several multi-media, multi-poet events, including two shows linked to Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho Poetica and Vertiginous. With Simon Barraclough and Chris McCabe she co-wrote, produced and performed in The Debris Field, about the sinking of RMS Titanic. Mariscat published her solo pamphlet The Leonids and her work can also be found in several group pamphlets and anthologies. She has recorded readings of her work on the Poetry Archive.

Contents

PLENTY

Plenty

Weather Eye

Fruit of the Land

Crossing

Rapture

Christmas Beetles

Reach

Amanzi

Aliens

A View of Empire from a Train

The Skinning

Shaken from Her Sleep

Foreshadow

Certus Incertus

Gemini

Positano

(I Want) Something to Show for It

The Root of It

Kudu Watch

Strike Softly Away from the Body

Back in the Benighted Kingdom

She Comes Swimming

The Growing Gift

MEET MY FATHER

Meet My Father

Father

Long Distance

Tear

In the Wind

Listening to the Birds

My Father’s Pain

Lamb

Struggle

Singsong

Today’s Lesson

Withdrawal

Watch

Survivor

Drip

Cheynes-Stokes

And

Afternoon

One of the First Times After

The Paths of the Heavenly Bodies are Ordained

Old Child

After Grief

The Buried Butterfly

Again, or Dreams of My Father, Always Silent Now

Night Skirmishes

‘And the Hyacinth’s in Bloom – A Lovely Blue’

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the author and this book