In the Hollow of the Wave DARCEY BUSSELL Long regarded as a classic

Long regarded as a classic

girl detective

unwanted changes and finding friendships in the most surprising places

and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family

In the Hollow of the Wave DARCEY BUSSELL Long regarded as a classicA hand stitched seascape of words and images from an award winning writer. I lay strips of pale peach cotton 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 skilfully threads together themes of belonging and material inheritance against a backdrop of verse, collage and textile.