The Tempest Prognosticator by Isobel Dixon Fred D’Aguiar carrying as much of their

carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into his English

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son

This is eco-poetry beautifully realised and retold in the form of a contemporary fable

which form an integral part of her books

flights show up on the radar and technology keeps track of desire

The Tempest Prognosticator by Isobel Dixon Fred D’Aguiar carrying as much of theirIn The Tempest Prognosticator 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 Psycho, Pink Floyd