Melinda Smith is a Canberra-based poet. Her fourth collection, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call, was published in 2013 by Pitt St Poetry. She blogs at www.melindasmith.wordpress.com and tweets as @MelindaLSmith. She is also one-third of the cross-arts poetry and performance collective anagramANAGRAM (www.poetryortype.wordpress.com)