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 for