Performances, teaching & commissions
Kat performs, teaches and takes commissions. If you’d like to work alongside Kat, get in touch.
”Kat Dixon’s attention to the world is deep, sharp and unafraid.” Glyn Maxwell
Performances
Kat performs across the UK in theatres, pubs, festivals and occasionally in the desert. Highlights have been at Poets with Pride @ Factory 15, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Oxford Poetry Library, Solo Poly Theatre, Colour House Theatre, 7 of Clubs @ Pushkin House, MoonChaos Cabaret @ Low Profile Studios as well as supporting book and anthology launches across the UK.
Get in touch to book Kat for a future performance.
Teaching
Kat teaches beginners through to advanced using fun, get-out-of-your seat techniques to engage with the play of language. She helps writers reach into their subconscious and engage with new forms. Kat has an MA in Writing Poetry with Newcastle University and The Poetry School.
She has previously taught courses at The Poetry School, Oxford Poetry Library, New Life Centre in Thailand and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. She teaches both online and in person.
Message Kat to explore teaching for beginners through to advanced.
Commissions
Kat enjoys working in collaboration with artists. Her collaboration with sculptor Dexter Dymoke through a commission with the APT Gallery resulted in a sequence of poems focused on materiality of the body.
Kat enjoys playing with objects. At her book launch, she produced and gave out fortune cookies with lines of poetry on them. During pandemic times, she printed ironic poetry labels on hand sanitiser bottles to distribute during readings.
Teaching testimonials
“Great! Helped me find new ways to approach the object of the poem more ‘indirectly’ through form.”
— Poetry student
“Awesome. Lots of fun. Incorporated fun and play. Incredible levity.”
— Poetry student
“She is an engaging reader and workshop facilitator.”
— Poetry student
“Fantastic prompts and super helpful explanation of form.”
— Poetry student
Fortune cookies
For her book launch, Kat lifted lines from eat the glitter and printed them inside fortune cookies. Anyone who came got to take one home.
Kat enjoys playing with words and objects, and exploring new ways to interact with poetry.
See the video for an ‘unboxing’ of a poetry fortune cookie.
Hand sanitiser labels
The hand sanitiser labels were a way of exploring words on objects during the pandemic. The labels either had short phrases, a couple of lines or full poems written on them. Kat gave away some of these at readings, and enjoyed drawing lines between functionality, creativity and play. A version of one of these poem-labels appears in her debut book eat the glitter.
Contact Kat
Interested in booking Kat for a performance, teaching, collaboration or commission? Send a message here and she’ll get back to you.