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In the Hollow of the Wave
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"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...
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In the Hollow of the Wave
A hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an
award-winning writer.
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Description
"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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776711512
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 July 2025
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Nina Mingya Powles is a poet and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in London. Her debut poetry collection, Magnolia ζ¨θ, 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 Poetsβ 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).
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