Human Form

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.

• 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

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