“Kat Dixon’s poems are about the stuff of modern life – relationships, sex, technology, advertising.”
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
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
Kat’s poetry
You can find Kat’s writing in various places, including The Rialto, Magma, fourteen poems, Butcher’s Dog, Queerlings, Mslexia, The Letters Page, Southbank Poetry, Perverse, Sideways Poetry Magazine, Tears in the Fence, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Ink Sweat & Tears, Impossible Archetype, Bluebird and others places.
Her work has been published in anthologies such as Spectrum Anthology, Re:Creation Anthology and 10 Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon.
Kat’s work has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Café Writers Prize, Verve Poetry Prize, the Rialto Pamphlet Prize, Sentinel Prize, Mslexia single poem prize, Waltham Forest Poetry Prize and the Ver Prize. Her poetry has been nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
10 poets travel to the dark side of the moon
This book sees ten new cosmonauts resurrect that most rickety, most celestial of technologies – the lyric poem – as a means of reaching out again, further and more fervently than ever before, in a space race from which some may never return. Are they prepared for what they’ll find out there, amid cold craters, micrometeorite showers and radioactive crust?
Spectrum anthology
The concept of identity – be it class, gender, sexuality, national, institutional, or anything else we define ourselves by – has gone through radical change over the past half-century, and the idea of definition by binary oppositions is no longer as relevant as it once was.
Spectrum is a poetry anthology that seeks to amplify marginalised voices, and to celebrate the great diversity and rich variation in the identities of people from around the world and from a huge cross-section of walks of life.
Re·creation Anthology
The project took its inspiration from Audre Lorde, and its title from her poem of the same name, placing roots in play, refreshment, recovery, restoration and creativity. The Re·creation anthology contains new work from nearly 30 writers of the LGBT+ community across the UK, including Joelle Taylor, Mary Jean Chan, Nat Raha, Harry Josephine Giles, Patience Agbabi, Christopher Whyte, Dean Atta, Jay Gao, and Andrew McMillan.
Contact Kat
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