A Fold in the Map
R220.00
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.
“A fold in the map” is a nod to Jan Morris’s Trieste And The Meaning of Nowhere, where the traveller’s state of inbetween-ness is explored. In these poems of longing for home, family and other loved ones, Isobel Dixon draws on a rich store of natural imagery, illuminating the ordinary, at times with a touch of wry humour. These are accessible lyrical poems that will speak memorably to all those who have travelled, loved and lost.
| Weight | 032 kg |
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| Dimensions | 235 × 155 × 25 mm |
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Isobel Dixon was born in Mthatha and grew up in Graaff-Reinet in the Great Karoo. Her debut, Weather Eye (Carapace) won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Her fifth collection, A Whistling of Birds (with illustrations by Douglas Robertson), was published in 2023 (UK: Nine Arches; SA: Human & Rousseau). Her earlier collections are A Fold in the Map (Jacana), The Tempest Prognosticator (Umuzi) and Bearings (Modjaji). She has work included in The New Century of South African Poetry (3rd edition) and forthcoming in The Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry (African Poetry Book Fund/ University of Nebraska Press, 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies around the world and been translated into several languages. |
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9781770095281 |
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