Magnolia
Nina Mingya Powles2020

Magnolia, Nina Mingya Powles first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed-race girlhood. Abundant with multiplicities, these poems find profound, distinctive joy in sensory nourishment in the sharing of food, in the recounting of memoirs, or vividly within nature. This is a poetry deeply attuned to the possibilities within layers of written, spoken and inherited words. A journal of sound, colour, rain and light.

'This collection pays homage to all that the five senses might evoke, with a particular attention to the myriad of memories our tastebuds conjure up through food and ritual.'- Mary Jean Chan

Titre original : Magnolia (2020)