Emer Lyons – The Spinoff

The Friday Poem: Elegy for God’s Own Country by Emer Lyons

18 September 202018 September 2020 by Emer Lyons

A new poem from Dunedin poet Emer Lyons. Elegy for God’s Own Country i too remember the sea of my insides waving at my face but why would anyone want to tame a magpie? it was during the gorse burn the intimacy of your hands as delicate as with new born lambs i’m afraid of … Read more

The Friday Poem: ‘Winter wood’ by Emer Lyons

16 October 201713 October 2017 by Emer Lyons

New verse by Dunedin writer Emer Lyons. Winter wood. Someone is chopping wood outside my window, or is it loudly inside my head? The slow swish of the axe the sharp splinter scattering little shards – impossible to clean up. I want to burrow beneath the soil, lie under the heavy comfort … Read more