Melinda Smith  won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her fourth book of poems,&amp;nbsp;  Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call  &amp;nbsp;(Pitt St Poetry, 2013). She has performed her work all over Australia. She is based in Canberra, and is currently poetry editor of   The Canberra Times  . Her next book of poems will be out later in 2016.