Mapless in Underland

Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smiths fresh surprising poems deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements published in this collection: Melinda Smith captures the danger and desire of an illicit relationship with sidelong ripple-whispers and the light but tidal tug of Truth or Dare. Dream world real world...the poems rhymes flow from line to line as seamlessly as wavelets on a sandy shore. - Susan Steggall Introduction to Sharing a Landscape: 
a celebration of difference (Society of Women Writers NSW Inc.) Praise for her previous collection Pushing thirty wearing seventeen: Pushing thirty wearing seventeen created a deep reflective space in me that I was reluctant to fill with words... [T]his fascinating anthology simultaneously stimulates stillness and a quality of unsettled friction. - Liz Darville Voice