Ictus

ictus [ik-tuhs] 1. In prosody the stress, beat or rythmical accent of a poem 2. In medicine a seizure, a stroke or the beat of the pulse

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Ephemeral Stones: West Norwood Book of the Dead 2

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 Having made a visit to West Norwood Cemetery about two weeks ago in glorious sunshine, I followed the  Curious Art trail, of which Chris ...
Sunday, 21 July 2013

The Rise of Twitter Poetry

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As an afterword to my slightly cynical take on becoming a Twitterer the other week, there was an interesting piece in The Independent a few...
Monday, 15 July 2013

Poems in Wolf's Clothing

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                                                          To the LRB Bookshop in Bury Place last week for the launch of The Wolf 29, whi...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Forwarding

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  Delighted to hear that a poem from Human Form has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 2013 and will be reprinted in the Forward an...
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Sunday, 7 July 2013

West Norwood Book of the Dead

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  I love Chris McCabe's recent project about locating the graves of little-known or forgotten poets in West Norwood Cemetery as describe...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Joining the Twitterati

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  I now have a Twitter account: @oliverdixon11. Expect regular updates on what brand of granola I'm having for breakfast, daily constern...
Sunday, 30 June 2013

Fulmination

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  Another pleasing review of Human Form appeared last week on the Dr Fulminare website, written by poet Judi Sutherland: http://drfulminare...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Interforms

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                                                   The Saloua Raouda Choucair retrospective at the Tate Modern is a revelatory survey of...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Poetry Gender Audit

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  The gender audit on the five main poetry-publishing houses done recently by Fiona Moore on her Displacement blog makes for essential read...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

Unexpected Body Combinations

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 I was immensely pleased to come across a first review of Human Form this week in the Los Angeles Review of Books, part of an excellently-w...
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First book of poems 'Human Form' published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. New book 'Incompletion' published April 2025 by Vole Books. Poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review and World Literature Today. Philosophy guide 'Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?' published in 2019. I'm a SEND teacher and Creative Writing tutor based in Hertfordshire, as well as being a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching British modernist poetry.
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