Isobel Dixon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Isobel Dixon

You can still sign up (till 6pm) for tonight's 7.30pm triple launch event online: Rishi's & James's books are in stores already & mine arrives in a fortnight, but the poems are all read fresh by us on the livestream tonight! Pay what you can, from £1: https://t.co/dh704HPE2J

Isobel Dixon

Lyndall Gordon is giving the T.S. Eliot Lecture at Merton College, Oxford, today - on 'T.S. Eliot’s Secrecy: Disguise & the Hidden Drama of Emily Hale’, the subject of her brilliant book THE HYACINTH GIRL. https://t.co/OZ7FJaEBcU https://t.co/9dlhxoFeQE

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As @ST_Culture says, go right to the source and get reading the #RoyGrace series before GRACE by the "king of police procedural" @peterjamesuk hits ITV this Spring! Script by Russell Lewis & starring John Simm. #BooksToScreen #Crime #BestSellers #DeadSimple #LookingGoodDead https://t.co/2bYeB4BWlM

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A sunny Saturday in Cambridge, but here's a poem from a rainy Spring @DartingtonTrust gardens - 1st published on #PlacesOfPoetry website & anthology, ed. Andrew McRae w. Paul Farley intro, @oneworldnews - now in my new collection #AWhistlingOfBirds. #nature #poetry #art #wonder https://t.co/SMV2SxiDei

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Wonderful to see @GMacraeBurnet's Case Study & Janice Galloway's classic The Trick is to Keep Breathing here, along with so many other great books, and ones on my ever-optimistic To Be Read stook... @BlakeFriedmann @julietpickering @SarabandBooks @vintagebooks #reading #pleasure https://t.co/7R9iVdAYzG

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'The proofreader is a tightrope artist, managing the difficult tension between momentum and inertia, story and stock, sentence and word.' - Ivan Vladislavić, from The Restless Supermarket @andothertweets #proofreading #editing #writing https://www.andotherstories.org/the-restless-supermarket/ https://twitter.com/mraozing/status/879242186864316416

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'Deon Meyer is the king of South African crime fiction and one of the world’s best thriller writers.... His previous novel, THE LAST HUNT, was my favourite thriller of 2019 and now... we have THE DARK FLOOD' ... 'another stunning book by Meyer' - @murdermayheman1

Isobel Dixon

What a wonderful @HarperFiction Zoom we had with @Barbaraerskine today, celebrating #TheDreamWeavers paperback publication - with the lovely prospect of many IRL events to come. No Zoom pic, but here's the sumptuous book - congrats, Barbara! 👏📘🍾🎉 https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dream-weavers/barbara-erskine/9780008195892 https://t.co/QjXSJSqTgK

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@jcwLIFE The full poem is here on @poetry_int archives https://t.co/uaXxhdECxJ & it's in A Fold in the Map, a title from - much-missed - Jan Morris's Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, about being between worlds. @JacanaMedia @NineArchesPress

Isobel Dixon

'On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and I still regard it, as a work of genius.' _ T.S. Eliot on David Jones's #InParenthesis. Watch the documentary about this extraordinary work on BBC Four at 7pm GMT tonight #WorldPoetryDay https://t.co/xoOBQ1sqXA