In Some Ways Dingo

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These are cruising poems: from inner city nights to driving country roads with a view across dashboard to margarine-coloured longrass shoplifting along the way with pop favourites Nick Cave, Sleater-Kinney, Neko Case and Taylor Swift as the soundtrack. Pam Brown

The poems revel in their uncouth streak, off-road and with a ruinous attitude. Ella OKeefe

Palomas work can be cited as part of a new wave of Australian poetry and resists easy categorisation In Some Ways Dingo embraces lexical shifts on the level of the line, through the poem, across the page, between poems. Language tugs in multiple directions, across different spaces/places, moving beyond, through, away and deep beneath. Amelia Dale, Cordite Poetry Review

this book isIn Some Ways Dingoand in some ways dingo, invitational in a sort of unfussed, casual, incantory way, like both a map and the act of traversing. These are poems about what it is to wonder about space before entering it, and then to do so, and to keep wondering the whole way through. Alex Griffin, Plumwood Mountain

These poems battle with an unrelenting desire to connect with nature, with people, and with ourselves, but at the same time capture how easily we sink into screensLoni Jeffs, Lor Journal

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The poems revel in their uncouth streak, off-road and with a ruinous attitude.Ella OKeefe

Author Bio

Melody Paloma grew up on the Northern Rivers in New South Wales. She was the recipient of the 2014 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for her poem Hyper-reactive, featured in In Some Ways Dingo, her first book.