INCOMPLETION
​by Oliver Dixon

'Incompletion' is a vivid foray through the fractured and incomplete things of our society – the paper trail left both by personal loss/mental health challenges and the break-up of our disunited kingdom via Brexit and austerity.
 
This is Oliver Dixon's third book and second collection of poems. His playful search for form and image mirrors the search for connection and home we all live through, listening with empathy to the marginalised voices in our society.

Oliver Dixon is a  poet, writer and teacher based in Hertfordshire whose first poetry collection, Human Form, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2013. His non-fiction philosophy guide Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche? was published by Bowden & Brazil in 2019. 

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Critical comments on Oliver Dixon’s previous collection, Human Form:

‘Archive of the fleeting, Human Form is a work of suspended animation whose captures rarely linger enough to seem artificially preserved.  — Lytton Smith, LA Review of Books
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‘... a poet of family life, drawing philosophical truths from the quotidian.’ — Judi Sutherland, Dr Fulminare 
 
‘I very much admired this book - the gently disabused humanity, the beautifully modulated diction, the understanding of form, the urbanity and humanity and freshness of the finely shaped objects he makes out of his experience.’ — Jonathan Galassi, Farrar Strauss & Giroux 
 ‘poetry hard worked at and finely finished. It feels sharp and fresh, all perceptions cleansed. It is also a poetry which is keen to appraise the world outside the writing self’ — Michael Glover

'... an extraordinary depth of hearing and dedication to craft ... This is a remarkably assured debut of poems, quietly meditative but at turns leporine in its power to transform our place in the everyday world. — James Byrne

INCOMPLETION by Oliver Dixon
ISBN: 9781917101097
Paperback, 92 pages
Published 1st April 2025
RRP: £10.99
Incompletion can be purchased direct from the author at: oliverdixon1.blogspot.com