In the Hollow of the Wave

"I lay strips of pale peachcotton 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 skilfullythreads together themes of belonging and material inheritance against abackdrop of verse, collage and textile. From shorelines in Aotearoa, the UK andacross Asia, this collection moves through words and images to explore waterand the body, sewing and artmaking, personal histories and multiculturalidentities. In the Hollow of the Wave questions the possibilities ofwhat a poem can be.