Exploring Poetry with Isobel Dixon
Date:
24/06/2010
Times:
4.15-6.15pm
Prices:
£25/£20 conc
Location:
Writers' Centre Norwich
Refresh your appetite for poetry with Isobel Dixon.
Description
‘You end up liking the poet a lot after reading this book, which is too rare an event in poetry.’ — David Morley on A Fold in the Map.
Would you like to revitalise your approach to poetry? Do you think your methods are becoming a tad staid?
Refresh your appetite by joining us for a workshop with South African poet, Isobel Dixon.
With a clean slate in hand, Isobel will help you focus on a few separate exercises for leaping into the poem. Using simple devices and practises, including objects and images, we’re sure that you’ll be back in the flow in no time.
Isobel has a vast sum of experience to inspire your writing. Her poetry collection Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001), won the Sanlam Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award in South Africa. She also has the privilege of representing writers from around the world as an agent at Blake Friedmann.
Whether you’re just finding your feet in the poetry world or simply need to refresh your approach, this is the workshop for you.
Booking
Call: 01603 877177 or email: info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
Visit Isobel’s website
Blake Friedmann website
Biography:
Isobel Dixon is a director of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency where she represents writers from around the world. Her interests are wide-ranging and her clients' work includes literary fiction, young adult fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, popular culture, biography, history and current affairs. Her clients have won all the major South African literary awards, and authors on her list have, among others, won the Caine Prize, Commonwealth and PEN Awards, the Barry Award and been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Author's Club First Book Award, and the Booker Prize.
Isobel was born and educated in South Africa, and in Edinburgh where she completed Masters degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics. She has translated novels from the Afrikaans and her debut poetry collection Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001) won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her second collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa, with her new collection The Tempest Prognosticator published by Salt in the UK and Random Umuzi in South Africa.
She is a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and often gives workshops on creative writing and agenting and speaks on panels at literary events, to students and to writers' groups.