Kat Dixon Poetry
Kat Dixon is a poet, performer and teacher based in London. Her debut book eat the glitter is out with Broken Sleep Books.
eat the glitter is an irreverent, lyrical exploration of queer love, modern culture, and a post-pandemic world.
She performs at theatres, pubs and festivals across the UK. She’s recently taught at The Poetry School, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and Oxford Poetry Library.
“Kat Dixon is the opposite of boring.” - Clare Pollard
Praise for eat the glitter
“Modern, stylish and filthy - I loved it.”
— Clare Pollard
“Sparkles with wit and formal inventiveness.”
— Emma Simon
“A superb debut from a richly gifted witness.”
— Glyn Maxwell
“The kind of debut that makes you sit up and take notice.”
— Tamar Yoseloff
eat the glitter
eat the glitter is an irreverent, lyrical exploration of queer love, modern culture, and a post-pandemic world. Tender yet cynical, this pamphlet nudges at the discomfort of art, capitalism, social contracts and the disconcerting remnants of lockdown in our lives. Amidst Kat Dixon's poetry lies an undercurrent of vulnerability, an acute and sensitive awareness of the world’s complexities and contradictions.
Performance extracts from eat the glitter
About Kat
Kat Dixon is a queer writer based in London. Her poetry explores the intersections of modern life, social justice, and queer identity in a rapidly changing world.
Kat’s work has been shortlisted for various prizes, including the Café Writers Prize, Verve Poetry Prize, and the Ver Prize.
Her poetry appears in The Rialto, Butcher’s Dog, Queerlings, Mslexia, and fourteenpoems and others; and queer anthologies such as Spectrum and Re:Creation Anthology.
Kat teaches at events like the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and The Poetry School, sharing ideas on the role of AI tools in the creative process. A digital inclusion researcher, she is passionate about how humanity adapts to and interacts with modern technology. Her poet-sculptor collaboration at APT Gallery explores how words intersect with visual play. Kat’s debut poetry pamphlet eat the glitter is published with Broken Sleep Books.
Contact Kat
Interested in booking Kat for a performance, teaching, collaboration or commission? Send a message here and she’ll get back to you.