Picture 1 of 2

Stock photo

Dixon, I: A Fold in the Map by Isobel Dixon [Paperback] - Picture 1 of 2

Dixon, I: A Fold in the Map by Isobel Dixon [Paperback] - Picture 2 of 2

A Fold in the Map by Isobel Dixon (Paperback, 2018)

loveourprices2 (119714)

95.4% positive Feedback

Price:

£9.94

Free postage

Estimated delivery Tue, 9 Sep

Returns:

60 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

A Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one’s native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father’s final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty — “before the fold” — the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the book’s second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more life-changing than merely moving abroad — a father’s illness and death, the loss of some of the plenty of the earlier poems.

About this product

Product Information

A Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. The first part, 'Plenty', deals with family, and a yearning view of home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the book's moving second half, 'Meet My Father', we encounter events more life-changing than merely moving abroad - a father's illness and death, the loss of that earlier plenty. The title A Fold in the Map is a nod to a phrase in Jan Morris's Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, which describes the traveller's state of in-betweenness. In these poems of love and longing for home, family, and other loved ones, Isobel Dixon draws on a store of sensuous natural imagery, illuminating the ordinary, often with a touch of wry humour. Her accessible contemporary lyricism will speak memorably to those who have travelled, loved and lost.