{"id":9265,"date":"2011-10-26T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2011-10-25T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T09:21:27","slug":"just-arrived-the-tempest-prognosticator-by-isobel-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/just-arrived-the-tempest-prognosticator-by-isobel-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: “The Tempest Prognosticator” by Isobel Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I first discovered the existence of this book on fellow Tuesday Poet<\/strong>, Kathleen Jones’s blog<\/strong><\/a>, on 12 September<\/strong><\/a>. I was so fascinated by the featured poem, the eponymous The Tempest Prognosticator<\/em>, that I decided to act on that fascination then and there and buy the book—which I promptly did, from UK publisher Salt<\/strong><\/a>. I am usually considerably more reticent about buying poetry on spec, as it were—and so correspondingly excited to now have the book right here on my desk (with a very nice note enclosed from the folk at Salt, I may add.)<\/p>\n

OK, onto the book. As with all “Just Arrived”s<\/a> I’m interested to know what the back cover has to say:<\/p>\n

“In The Tempest Prognosticator<\/em> leeches warn of storms, whales blunder up the Thames, beetles tap out their courtship rituals, and women fall for deft cocktail makers and melancholy apes. With her keen eye and a gift for vividly capturing the natural world, Isobel Dixon entices the reader on a journey where the familiar is not always as it seems at first, where the sideways glance, the double take, yields rich rewards. From Crusoe to <\/em>Psycho, Pink Floyd to Fred Astaire, the human zoo’s at play here too, in a collection filled with \u2018miracle and wonder\u2019, wit and bite.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Which certainly sounds more than a little interesting … Especially when taken together with cover praise from writers such as JM Coetzee:<\/p>\n

‘In this virtuoso collection, the work of a poet confident in her mastery of her medium, Isobel Dixon moves easily from dialogues with the animal world to mordant ventriloquizings of the female self.’<\/p>\n

Intriguing even. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to reading for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first discovered the existence of this book on fellow Tuesday Poet, Kathleen Jones’s blog, on 12 September. I was so fascinated by the featured poem, the eponymous The Tempest Prognosticator, that I decided to act on that fascination then and there and buy the book—which I promptly did, from UK publisher Salt. I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}