Cover Reveal: Magnitude

Dryad is excited to be publishing a new collection by poet and academic, Deborah Seddon titled Magnitude. The collection is forthcoming late October and early November 2025. Watch our social media sites for announcements of the launch dates. A shout out to our indomitable cover designer, Stephen Symons for the sparse, yet moving design. And to the incredible artist Elize de Beer whose artwork titled Whe e graces the front cover. This collograph and monogram is from 2022. You can follow Elize on Instagram to keep track of the incredible projects that she is working on from her base in Cork, Ireland. 

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. Here, the poet interrogates wider issues of home and belonging, and particularly the experience of migrants who have fled unliveable homes only to be refused human kinship in their host countries. It is an unmissable collection. We urge you to take advantage of our pre-order special to grab a copy. We are offering a 25% discount on your purchase of any titles one of which is Magnitude. This offer expires 15 October 2025.