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Melody Paloma

Melody Paloma is a poet currently living in Naarm (Melbourne). Her debut collection, In Some Ways Dingo, was published as part of the Rabbit Poets Series in 2017. Over the course of 2018, she produced Some Days, a durational chapbook-length work published by Stale Objects dePress and performed in 2019 with Liquid Architecture. In 2018, she published it’s what we’re already doing (Shower Books), a collaborative work with Elena Gomez, Leah Muddle, Ella O’Keefe, Emily Stewart and Sian Vate. Most recently, as part of Gertrude Contemporary’s Octopus 12: Ventriloquy program, she collaborated with retired seafarers Leigh Webster and Neil Butt for a performance of Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems.

Tell Me Like You Mean It 3

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Melody Paloma

In curating this chapbook I’m not sure I feel closer to answering these questions: certainly they are never stagnant … But I do feel closer to poetry’s resistance to answer these questions, which does circle back to some kind of answer to my last question – we return to poetry not because we have an answer, but instead return in a process of regeneration.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Alex Creece, Bonnie Reid, Bridget Gilmartin, Claire Albrech, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Gian Manik, Grace Heyer, Harriet McInerney, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Janet Jiahui Wu, Jonno Révanche, Julie Jedda Janson, Kent MacCarter, Manisha Anjali, Melody Paloma, Neika Lehman, Prithvi Varatharajan, Rory Dufficy, Sam Langer, Stella Maynard, Timmah Ball, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, Will Druce, Zoe Kingsley

Melody Paloma Reviews Keri Glastonbury

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Melody Paloma

What is it about the sonnet? How is it that the infinite possibilities of those 14 lines can remain as persuasive and perplexing in 2018, in Newcastle, as they did in fourteenth century Italy?

Posted in BOOK REVIEWS | Tagged Keri Glastonbury, Melody Paloma

Tell Me Like You Mean It: New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Melody Paloma

‘Emerging’ is a strange word, and ‘strange’ is probably a cop out. It is often arbitrary, sometimes condescending, frequently empowering and often carries with it an incredible sense of community.

Posted in CHAPBOOKS | Tagged Alison Whittaker, Amelia Dale, Anupama Pilbrow, Bella Li, Claire Nashar, Elena Gomez, Ella O'Keefe, Emily Stewart, Evelyn Araluen, Hera Lindsay Bird, Holly Childs, Holly Isemonger, Jessica Mei Cham, Leah Muddle, Magan Magan, Marjon Mossammaparast, Melody Paloma, Mikaila Hanman Siegersma, Oscar Schwartz, Ryan Prehn, Saaro Umar, Sian Vate, Stacey Teague

Melody Paloma Reviews Emily Stewart

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Melody Paloma

Emily Stewart’s Knocks operates somewhere in between these two ideas. Certainly, Stewart is part of a new wave of avant-garde poetry in Australia, and collaborative prowess is surely at the collection’s centre; but it is difficult to attach Stewart to just one particular community.

Posted in BOOK REVIEWS | Tagged Emily Stewart, Frank O’Hara, Melody Paloma

Holiday

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Melody Paloma

the gut of a rock catches sea murmur in my throat with swimmer’s ear and something else high tide brings up dark patches where there must be colour or maybe white like these ones dried up on the shore wind …

Posted in 72: THE END | Tagged Melody Paloma

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