MAGNITUDE, poems

96pp., paperback, Dryad Press, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781037044687

This debut collection of poems explores the challenges of diaspora and displacement, the meaning of home and belonging, and the existential un-housing and self-homing of queerness.

“This is poetry that brings a tear to the eye and wipes it away with the driest of wit. A mature debut by a gifted author.” Nathan Trantraal

Deborah Seddon was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, emigrating to South Africa where she now lives and works. She is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University, and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes University and a PhD in English from Cambridge University. Her poetry has been published in various journals, both locally and abroad, including Ons Klyntji, Botsotso, New Contrast, the Sol Plaatje European Union Anthology, the AvBob Poetry Project, the Badilisha Poetry X-Change Archive of Pan-African poets, the Gerald Kraak Anthology, and Sinister Wisdom.