04 March, 19.30: Isobel Dixon was born in Mthatha and grew up in Graaff-Reinet in the Great Karoo. Her debut, Weather Eye (Carapace) won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Her fifth collection, A Whistling of Birds (with illustrations by Douglas Robertson), was published in 2023 (UK: Nine Arches; SA: Human & Rousseau). Her previous collections are A Fold in the Map (Jacana), The Tempest Prognosticator (Umuzi) and Bearings (Modjaji). She has work included in The New Century of South African Poetry (3rd edition) and forthcoming in The Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry (African Poetry Book Fund/University of Nebraska Press, 2024). Join on Zoom!