Mapless in Underland

Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith’s 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 poem’s 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