Melinda Smith

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Melinda Smith (born 1971) is an Australian poet.

Smith won the poetry section of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2014 for her collection Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call. [1] The award citation said, "From its range of technique and tone to its depth of ideas, imagery and emotion, this collection announces the arrival of a major new poet." [2]

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She was the Poetry Editor of The Canberra Times between June 2015 and June 2017. [3]

Smith lives in Canberra with her partner and their two sons. One of their sons has been diagnosed with autism, which has been the subject of many of her poems, including the entire collection First...Then... : Poems from Planet Autism. [4]

Poetry collections

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References

  1. 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners Archived 2015-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  2. Judges' Comments Archived 2015-11-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  3. "Melinda Smith". ANU Legal Workshop. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. George Thomas, "Woman Alive", Quadrant , July–August 2014, pp. 139-40.
  5. "Listen, bitch". Recent Work Press. Retrieved 30 October 2019.