Isobel Dixon, Weather Eye, poet's first collection 2001, inscribed

Isobel Dixon, Weather Eye. Cape Town: Carapace, 2001. 

Stiff card wraps, 48 pages.

Fine condition.

Warm presentation inscription from the author on the title-page.

Isobel Dixon was born in Mthatha, Transkei, in 1969. Her father, a Scot, was Dean of the Cathedral, her mother was born and raised in country districts or the Eastern Cape. Isobel grew up in Graaff-Reinet in the Great Karoo, where her family lived in one of the towns characteristic old houses. The family home was crammed with books and they were her constant companions. She studied at Stellenbosch before enrolling for a postgraduate degree in Edinburgh in 1993. Here she obtained Masters degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics. After this, she began a career in publishing as a literary agent, writing poetry in her free time. Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001), her first collection of poems, won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Currently, she divides her life between the U.K. and South Africa.

Keywords: South African Poetry. Literature.