top of page
Writing Portfolio and Blog
Search
Terri Seddon
Apr 12, 20212 min read
Review | Crazy richness: Insights into our times
Crazy Rich Asians was our book club reading for March. I was slow to get started. My daughter said it was a quick read and made her...
116 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Roses are forever
Twelve roses bob by the harbour wall, Still bunched, red as blood in the swell. A gift. Emotion made real Heaving, falling, drowning,...
24 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Review | Songlines, powerful knowledge and the 'third archive'
Songlines, a 2020 Christmas present, was a fascinating read when my focus was on the short-term events, like the COVID disaster and the...
112 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Dec 15, 20203 min read
Navigating universities
It’ feels strange to retire from a lifetime of university work, especially when I’m still busy with research projects and research...
14 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Reclaiming ritual
Into the Wonnangatta - Halloween 2019 Grey sky above snow grass plain. Muggy wind Blows across endless trees, stretching horizons. Jinxed...
11 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Review | The white girl
Title: The white girl Author: Tony Birch Published: June 2019 Publisher: UQP Category: Fiction The White Girl is a memorable story...
390 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Sep 3, 20201 min read
It's getting dark...
Whooho. The book proposal was submitted yesterday on 2 September 2020. It’s about teacher education in a world that seems to be getting...
20 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Sep 1, 20202 min read
Review | The animals in that country
Title: The animals in that country Author: Laura Jean McKay Published: April 2020 Publisher: Scribe Category: Fiction This debut...
10 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jul 15, 20201 min read
Williamstown Beach
Williamstown Beach
Blue still water.
A whiteness in the blue
Like a smear of ice across the bay
Silvering stillness.
4 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jul 12, 20203 min read
Review | The dream chasers
Gill Bolton’s Dream Chasers is a story about Cornish miners between 1870 and 1882, when Cornish tin extraction peaked and then declined...
11 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jun 9, 20203 min read
Where do I stand?
Black lives; white eyes It was the title that caught my eye. The first sentence said, ‘It feels like the USA is on fire right now’. I’d...
10 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Jun 2, 20203 min read
Review | Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers
I read Grandmothers before Mother’s Day, but my daughter’s card prompted me to re-visit this collection of twenty two essays ...
18 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
May 19, 20201 min read
My mother's poems
She used to write verse once, my mother. Then she aged; her memory faded. I give her the poems I’ve typed ‘You wrote them,’ I tell her....
17 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
May 16, 20201 min read
The Crow
She used to write poetry, my mother.
Then she aged; her memory faded ...
9 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Apr 29, 20201 min read
Unspoken farewell
I nuzzle my face into her neck, like a child. / My memory of comfort colliding with / The hollow feeling that’s fear. ...
9 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Apr 29, 20201 min read
Wild weather today
Sing the earth as you walk,
Shout into wind lifting your hair.
Laugh at rain falling from sodden skies,
Splash through puddles ...
12 views0 comments
Terri Seddon
Apr 27, 20202 min read
Why a website?
I've spent weeks agonising about this website and trying to work out how to set it up. Last night I messaged my special women ...
18 views0 comments
bottom of page