Sue Wootton
Sue Wootton is the author of three collections of poetry, an illustrated children’s book, and the short story collection, The Happiest Music on Earth (Rosa Mira Books, 2013). Sue has won several awards for her work and held the 2008 Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. She works as a researcher and editor and lives in Dunedin. Further information is available on her website, suewootton.co.nz .
Reading List
Graveyard Poem
Sue Wootton – Graveyard Poem (2012) In a cemetery in sunlight with names wept into granite, I lie on a grave under a defoliating oak, crisp leaves flittering. Concrete cold creeps into my spine, aligns me with death. But the …