What lies in those in-between spaces between ocean and land, earth and air? And what happens when we cross a line and enter that suspended space? The poems in Thin Lines – Emer Fallon’s debut collection – explore the places we encounter between sanity and madness, sickness and health, the past and the present, and life and death, travelling from a Wicklow childhood to life in the West Kerry gaeltacht, and examining the many crossing points encountered along the way.
Emer Fallon grew up in West Wicklow and studied in Dublin before moving to the West Kerry Gaeltacht where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She has worked as a journalist, café manager and more recently as an environmental advocate, delivering environmental workshops to primary school pupils. Her poetry has been published in Banshee, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, THE SHOp, and The Poetry Bus, and features in Washing Windows III and Ponc Press bilingual letterpress volumes Two Tongues: Dánta Nua ó Chorca Dhuibhne and Port na bPúcaí. She received an Arts Council Agility Award in 2022 to support her work writing and illustrating a climate themed children’s story and is currently working on her second poetry collection. She also writes fiction.
