anne.seebach.poetry

Hi, I’m Anne. Thanks for visiting this quiet corner of the internet, where I share poems, reflections, and fragments gathered along the way.

I live in Wagga Wagga, a regional city on Wiradjuri Country in rural Australia. For some thirty odd years, I’ve worked as a paediatric occupational therapist, striving to support children and families as they grow into themselves. Poetry arrived later in my life – unexpected, insistent, part of my own growing.

I write to make sense of things, or to quietly reflect when they don’t make sense at all. Sometimes to simply speak ‘myself’. My poems often explore memory, grief, connection, sensory experience, and those fleeting moments when something ordinary sings. Importantly, it’s about gradually embracing all facets of myself – ourselves. The joyous, the mundane, the dark – all are valid, all together are ‘me’, all are we, in the infinite macrocosm of time.

My writing often leans into free verse, and Eastern-influenced styles, but it’s a mixed bag. I hope a little something for everyone.

I dream of being a poet and philosopher when I grow up myself, one day. I’m also a lover of wine, music, old books, old glass, science fiction, and the kinds of conversations that make you stop and think twice – and laugh.

All the images on this site are my own. A reflection of my some time hobby with mobile photography and digital art, and the occasional foray into pencils and paints.

This blog is a way of gathering all these threads, sharing them with you, and maybe finding a little more meaning in the spaces between.

Please, check out the menu, dip in and see if it suits. I look forward to meeting you there.

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Featured Post

The current featured post is a poem I wrote around March 2024. I think this piece comes closest to conveying the way I feel the world, when I pause a moment, and pay attention.