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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 In Some Ways Dingo
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Tony Messenger Interviews Melody Paloma Tony Messenger (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;

'At the Melbourne launch of In Some Ways Dingo, fellow poet Sian Vate likened Melody Paloma’s debut collection to a road movie and on first reading I agree, a road movie where that endless horizon signifies loss or melancholy. And during the journey the poet acts as a bowerbird collecting urban myths, cult movies, and your pre-loved junk before arranging it all intricately onto the page, courting you to delve further.'  (Introduction)

Alex Griffin Reviews In Some Ways Dingo by Melody Paloma Alex Griffin , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2018;

— Review of In Some Ways Dingo Melody Paloma , 2017 selected work poetry
Review Short : Melody Paloma’s In Some Ways Dingo Amelia Dale , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

— Review of In Some Ways Dingo Melody Paloma , 2017 selected work poetry

'The cover of Melody Paloma’s first poetry collection, In Some Ways Dingo, is a work by the artist Emma Finneran called ‘Into Stella.’ It’s formed from acrylic, ink and pastel on cotton drop cloth. Finneran’s work is interested in the material possibilities of drop-cloths: cloths typically instrumentalised into catching ‘the excess paint from Mum’s feature wall’ (in Finneran’s words) and to be eventually ‘rendered forgotten, formless, shapeless, degraded – to be dropped.’ Finneran’s practice reanimates and repurposes drop sheets into paintings, embellishing aleatory markings. The green and purple brush stripe near the centre of the cover art of Paloma’s book, for instance, elaborates on accidental strokes to create a marking that gestures towards a street strip, evoking the way In Some Ways Dingodrives its reader across the page. This is a poetry collection that Sian Vate suggests doubles as a ‘road movie’ (Melbourne launch speech, 2017). In any case, this cover displays discarded detritus as productive of making, meaning and abstraction. Finneran’s practice is both procedural and unruly freeform. Thick with the textures and the robust practicalities of art making, Finneran’s work mirrors as much as it frames In Some Ways Dingo.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Melody Paloma’s In Some Ways Dingo Amelia Dale , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

— Review of In Some Ways Dingo Melody Paloma , 2017 selected work poetry

'The cover of Melody Paloma’s first poetry collection, In Some Ways Dingo, is a work by the artist Emma Finneran called ‘Into Stella.’ It’s formed from acrylic, ink and pastel on cotton drop cloth. Finneran’s work is interested in the material possibilities of drop-cloths: cloths typically instrumentalised into catching ‘the excess paint from Mum’s feature wall’ (in Finneran’s words) and to be eventually ‘rendered forgotten, formless, shapeless, degraded – to be dropped.’ Finneran’s practice reanimates and repurposes drop sheets into paintings, embellishing aleatory markings. The green and purple brush stripe near the centre of the cover art of Paloma’s book, for instance, elaborates on accidental strokes to create a marking that gestures towards a street strip, evoking the way In Some Ways Dingodrives its reader across the page. This is a poetry collection that Sian Vate suggests doubles as a ‘road movie’ (Melbourne launch speech, 2017). In any case, this cover displays discarded detritus as productive of making, meaning and abstraction. Finneran’s practice is both procedural and unruly freeform. Thick with the textures and the robust practicalities of art making, Finneran’s work mirrors as much as it frames In Some Ways Dingo.' (Introduction)

Alex Griffin Reviews In Some Ways Dingo by Melody Paloma Alex Griffin , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2018;

— Review of In Some Ways Dingo Melody Paloma , 2017 selected work poetry
Tony Messenger Interviews Melody Paloma Tony Messenger (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;

'At the Melbourne launch of In Some Ways Dingo, fellow poet Sian Vate likened Melody Paloma’s debut collection to a road movie and on first reading I agree, a road movie where that endless horizon signifies loss or melancholy. And during the journey the poet acts as a bowerbird collecting urban myths, cult movies, and your pre-loved junk before arranging it all intricately onto the page, courting you to delve further.'  (Introduction)

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