Magnitude, by Deborah Seddon

Working with a rich, explicit and often musical intertextuality, this collection examines the challenges of both diaspora and displacement. The experience of a mother’s illness and death, and the packing-up of a family home in Harare, become the impetus to explore childhood memories and the adult child’s self-reckoning, raising questions of the earthly and the spiritual, the human and the animal, and the existential unhousing and self-homing of queerness.