New Poetry Collection Explores Mixed-race Experience
Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm Magnolia , the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Last year it was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on 13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph Press. “It’s been fabulous to see the excitement for Nina’s work in the UK, where she has been living ...
Source: scoop.co.nz