Released August 31st, 2025 // 40 pages // 978-1-917617-27-7 // RRP: £9.99 / $13.99 / €11.99
Jo Morris Dixon’s Strawberries is a taut, quietly disquieting sequence that traces the intensities of bodily experience, domestic space, and emotional dislocation. Composed with formal restraint and a fine-tuned sonic sensibility, the poems dwell in moments of stillness and subtle fracture, where everyday objects take on charged symbolic weight. Dixon’s language is precise and elliptical, revealing the undercurrents of desire, discomfort, and self-reckoning that surface through repetition and gesture. The result is a pamphlet that resists resolution, allowing ambiguity and unease to remain present, unresolved, and quietly resonant.
PRAISE for Strawberries:
Tender and deliciously complex, Strawberries is a pamphlet that feels both deeply personal and remarkably relatable. Dixon weaves together memories, emotions and reflections in such a vulnerable and poignant way. There is a unique voice here, one with such emotional honesty, inviting you to explore these moments of joy, loss and devastation. I was truly, profoundly moved.
— Luís Costa
Jo Morris Dixon writes with a steady eye and an open heart. The body is at the centre of these intimate poems - queer, loving, grieving - and the physical propels the texts in their explorations of vulnerability and resilience. Courageous, both in form and content, Strawberries is a pamphlet which reminds us that “being alive we have to try harder.”
— Ella Duffy
This is such a vulnerable and authentic collection of poems from a fresh queer voice. I particularly love the rich use of details and imagery that creates a vibrant, candid, and complex world on the page. A collection worth rereading and contemplating.
— Golnoosh Nour
Jo Morris Dixon’s Strawberries is a searing reflection of our tempestuous times – an unflinching exploration of the human condition that resonates deeply with the anxieties of our present moment.
— Kostya Tsolakis
ABOUT Jo Morris Dixon:
Jo Morris Dixon is the author of two poetry pamphlets: I told you everything (Verve Poetry Press: 2021) and Strawberries (Broken Sleep Books: 2025). She has had individual poems appear in: Oxford Poetry, Ambit, The Poetry Review, bath magg, and fourteen poems. In addition, they have had poems anthologized in 100 Queer Poems (Vintage Press: 2022), He She They Us (Pan Macmillan: 2024) and You’re Never Too Much: poems for every emotion (Pan Macmillan: 2025).
