Born Sacred
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In the Hollow of the Wave
£12.49
I lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.
Each becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.
Each block like a sentence, each sentence an island, all the islands loosely touching.
In her second book of poetry, Nina Mingya Powles skilfully threads together themes of belonging and material inheritance against a backdrop of verse, collage and textile. From shorelines in Aotearoa, the UK and across Asia, this collection moves through words and images to explore water and the body, sewing and artmaking, personal histories and multicultural identities. In the Hollow of the Wave questions the possibilities of what a poem can be.
Nina Mingya Powles is a poet and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in London. Her debut poetry collection, Magnolia 木蘭, was published in New Zealand, the UK and the US, and was a finalist in the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Powles won the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize in 2018 and the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for under-represented nature writers in 2019. Her resulting book of essays Small Bodies of Water was published in 2021 by Canongate. She has also published a short food memoir, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai (The Emma Press, 2020).
- ISBN-13
- 9781776711512
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 10 July 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 mm
- Language
- English
