Cover Art: “Passing Through Time” ©Eric Falk Cover Design: Nicky Sinclair
For a preview, check out the following recently-published poems online:
“Continuum” Terrain.org
“Lookout” One
“Unending” Image
“Fishing” Pinch
“Forty-Two Days until the Election” Poets Reading the News
“In Search of Eden at the New York Botanical Garden” On the Seawall
“Split Second” The Marrow
“Accidie” The Cortland Review
“Time Capsules” Couplet Poetry
“Fish Story” Bracken
My third poetry collection, tic tic tic, is forthcoming September 16th from Cornerstone Press!
tic tic tic begins in the ashes of 2019—a roaring ‘20s New Year’s Eve party gives way to a pandemic, an insurrection, war after war, the possibility of tyranny and the mounting climate crisis. Along the way, the steady change of seasons and tick of time elevate the tension between the urgency of the moment and history’s expanse, between an individual’s response and the inevitable legacy of collective generations. tic tic tic is a clear-eyed lyric take on the chaos of our times, yet an affirmation of the human spirit. A life is lived, a new generation created, faith smolders, love and hope persist.
Early Praise:
“One can only applaud Heidi Seaborn's spiritual and intellectual acumen. More than testimonial, the poems in tic tic tic bring to our age of volatility and urgent moral questions, a clear-sightedness owed to her Eliotic sense of history and rich literary knowledge. tic tic tic gently and magically reorients our eyes, turns us toward the light of awareness where language is action.”—Major Jackson, author of Razzle Dazzle
“Seaborn beautifully, movingly tracks and enacts an accelerating motion of insight through the inner and outer seasons of these challenging times.” —Arthur Sze, author of Into the Hush
“The poems of tic tic tic are part meditative metronome and part photographic timeline documenting what it’s been like to love, have children, have grandchildren, travel, and be alive as the daily news delivers unending reports of death, sorrow, and despair…These poems syncopate—rising like the wild heartbeats of those who hope.” —Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures
“tic tic tic reminds me that poems, with their surprising observations and cadences, can create small but vital openings in the armor of our protective gestures, portals through which thought and feeling move, mind to mind and heart to heart... Orbiting dynamic questions of faith, grief, and time, these vivid poems grapple with ongoingness and unfinishedness: ‘The end of the day—will not / end its spiral / descent to / another place—’ Seaborn writes, ‘call it a life or a death.’” —Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat