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Human Form Oliver Dixon

Human Form By Oliver Dixon

Human Form by Oliver Dixon


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Summary

Both human and humane, Oliver Dixon's debut collection maps a city and its inhabitants - from starlings and plane trees to a Stockhausen-listening street cleaner. But Human Form is as much a reflection on an interior world on the cusp of change; a search for form, combining elegantly crafted lyrics with prose poetry and fractured texts.

Human Form Summary

Human Form by Oliver Dixon

Both human and humane, Oliver Dixon's debut collection of poetry maps a city and its inhabitants - from starlings and plane trees to a Stockhausen-listening street cleaner. But Human Form is as much a reflection on an interior world on the cusp of change. This book is a search for form, of modes of utterance, combining elegantly crafted lyrics with dense blocks of prose poetry and fractured texts. Dixon is a poet open to invention and re-invention: reflective yet lively, philosophical yet grounded, a brilliant observer of people, place and moments of uncertainty coalescing into meaning.

Human Form Reviews

Oliver Dixon's poetry stubbornly resists easy solutions. It is a poetry hard worked at and finely finished. It feels sharp and fresh, all perceptions cleansed. This may be a first book, but it is a first book blessed with poise, confidence and maturity. - Michael Glover A remarkably assured debut, quietly meditative but at turns leporine in its power to transform our place in everyday world. - James Byrne

About Oliver Dixon

Oliver Dixon was born in Sussex and, excepting periods travelling in Europe and Asia, has lived most of his adult life in London. He is a specialist teacher for students with learning disabilities. His poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, The London Magazine, The Wolf, Frogmore Papers, Long Poem Magazine, Blackbox Manifold, Gists & Piths and New Welsh Review. He blogs at Ictus (oliverdixon1.blogspot.com). Human Form is his first book.

Table of Contents

Skip Human Form Interruptus Cityscape with Floating Lover Local History A to Z Transit The Other Side of Silence At Llantwitt Beach Three Songs in Search of a Singer A Type of Ambiguity Samara Noncellations Ouroboric Myth of the Old Master A Palestinian Donkey Three Domestic Interiors from Proses for Hal Incandenza Last Living Speaker Labyrinthitis The Ice River Fool's Proof Time and Motion Studies Metaphormosis Rough Guide Lament of the Hackney Street Cleaner Apocrypha of an Incomplete Angler The Lemon-in-Itself The Duration Time Permitting Cartoon Man An Old Philosopher in Brighton Book of the Giant

Additional information

GOR009941225
9781908058126
1908058129
Human Form by Oliver Dixon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penned in the Margins
20130301
80
N/A
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