She is currently completing her PhD with the University of Lancaster, England and her thesis focusses on different ways of conveying violence through poetry and explores violence on a number of different socio-economic and personal levels. Here she is seeking to build on the foundations laid by great female writers who have chosen to write about violence, such as Margaret Atwood and Sharon Olds. Melanie´s thesis will be accompanied by a 90 page manuscript of her own poetry which she´s chosen to call, Murderabelia: the term applied to items connected with violence and murder, such as items which belonged to the perpetrator or the victim of the crime. In this podcast, Melanie reads from and discusses Murderabelia.