Small Bodies of Water

A lyrical, poetic essay collection that blends memoir with powerful writing on the natural world, taking us from London to New Zealand, Shanghai to Malaysia - from the winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize

About the author

Nina Mingya Powles is a writer, editor and publisher from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Magnolia, which was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje Prize and the Forward Prize; and Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai. In 2019 she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for Small Bodies of Water, and in 2018 she won the Women Poets' Prize. She is the founding editor of Bitter Melon. Nina was born in Aotearoa, partly grew up in China, and now lives in London.

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Summary

A lyrical, poetic essay collection that blends memoir with powerful writing on the natural world, taking us from London to New Zealand, Shanghai to Malaysia - from the winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize

Additional text

A hauntingly beautiful work - as deep and varied as the bodies of water it explores - and just as affecting. Powles writes of the body, the self and the natural world in ways I've not experienced before; full of raw and glistening truth. This book is exquisite and perfectly formed and reflective and it leaves ripples on your insides like the sea. The writing is off the scale

Product details

• Authors: Nina Mingya Powles
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2021
• EAN: 9781838852153
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-215-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 220 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Nature / Plants / Flowers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, NATURE / Essays, Shanghai, Central London, Memoirs, natural history, NATURE / Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Travel writing, New Zealand, Literary essays, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest