Oliver Dixon's debut poetry collection maps the city of London 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. The book is a search for form, combining elegant 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.
Oliver Dixon
was born in Sussex and, aside from travels across 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
The Frogmore Papers
and
New Welsh Review
. He lives in West London.