{"product_id":"in-the-hollow-of-the-wave","title":"In the Hollow of the Wave","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eby Nina Mingya Powles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an award-winning writer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach block like a sentence, each sentence an island, all the islands loosely touching.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNina Mingya Powles is a poet and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in London. Her debut poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagnolia 木蘭\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003ePowles\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published in 2021 by Canongate. She has also published a short food memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (The Emma Press, 2020).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898239332587,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/0746\/4939\/files\/IntheHollowoftheWave.png?v=1781837551","url":"https:\/\/nowherebookstorenz.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-hollow-of-the-wave","provider":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}