We're so excited that Nina Mingya Powles's Magnolia 木蘭 has been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Congratulations Nina!

She's in fine company, as you can see. You can read more about the finalists on the awards site. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on on 12 May, during the 2021 Auckland Writers Festival. (Hopefully it won't have to go online again this year!)

 Seraph Press and Food Court Books invite you to come and celebrate the launch of Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles. 

When: Saturday 13 March, 3 pm
Where: Food Court Books, 84 Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington

Nina will read from Magnolia 木蘭 and copies will be for sale.

For every copy of Magnolia 木蘭 you buy at the launch you'll also receive an extra special gift (while stock lasts): a gorgeous risograph print of 'Last eclipse', one of the poems in the collection, which Nina has printed herself.

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Find out more about Magnolia 木蘭

We're really really delighted that Nina Mingya Powles's excellent collection Magnolia 木蘭 has been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry. Congratulations Nina!

Find out more about Magnolia 木蘭

She's in excellent company and we're especially pleased to see other smaller presses represented in this longlist. This is the first time any of my Seraph Press books have been longlisted (though, in my humble opinion, not the first that deserved to be), so it feels like a bit of a breakthrough.

Read more about the longlist on the book awards' website

The Ockhams are New Zealand's only general book awards. The four shortlisted titles will be announced on 3 March (we're crossing our fingers), and the winners are announced at an awards ceremony on 12 May (covid willing) as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. 

​Help us celebrate the launch of Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles in the time of covid! Nina is stuck in lockdown in London, from where she will do an Instagram Live reading to celebrate the publication of the New Zealand edition of her fabulous new poetry collection.
 
Join us on Wednesday 2 December at 9 pm NZ time on Nina’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/ninamingya/. (It will also be available to view later, but live is best!) To view the video you’ll need to have an Instagram account.
 
If Instagram isn’t your thing, or even if it is, you can also look forward to the real-life launch we’re planning with Nina in March!! Details TBC.
 
You can buy Magnolia 木蘭 from good bookshops, or direct from us: https://www.seraphpress.co.nz/magnolia.html. First 100 direct orders will also get a limited edition risograph print made by Nina herself of one of the poems in the collection.

We've been a bit quiet for a while, but we're very excited to announce the imminent publication of Magnolia 木蘭 ​by Nina Mingya Powles. Her much-awaited follow-up to Luminescent, her box-set collection, is both  a sensuous delight and deep exploration of experiences of being mixed race and calling multiple places home. The UK edition of ​Magnolia 木蘭 was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. 
Find out more about Magnolia 木蘭 ​... 

As a special bonus, the first 100 direct (from us) orders for Magnolia 木蘭 will also receive an extra special gift: a gorgeous risograph print of 'Last eclipse', one of the poems in the collection, which Nina has printed herself on her risograph printer. You can buy Magnolia 木蘭 directly from us via this page: www.seraphpress.co.nz/magnolia.html

Because Nina is currently in lockdown in London, we'll mark the launch of Magnolia 木蘭 with an Instagram Live reading, which we'll give you the details for soon. But we're hoping to being able to have an in-person launch event and general celebration with Nina sometime early next year!

We hope you will join us to celebrate the launch of Paula Green's new poetry collection, The Track. First up is our Wellington launch, but Aucklanders won't miss out either. Look forward to seeing you there!

Find out more about The Track

Paula Green and Seraph Press invite you to celebrate the launch of  The Track, with readings on the theme of surprise by: Anna Jackson, Bill Manhire,  Chris Tse, Dinah Hawken,  Gregory O’Brien,  Hannah Mettner, Helen Rickerby,  Manon Revuelta, Sam Duckor-Jones  and Tayi Tibble.

When: Thursday 11 July 2019, 5.30 pm
Where: VicBooks, Kelburn Parade
All welcome

Paula Green and Seraph Press  invite you to celebrate the launch of  The Track, with readings on the theme of surprise by: Anne Kennedy, Courtney Sina Meredith, Kim Meredith and Kiri Piahana Wong.

When: Monday 15 July 2019, 6.00 pm
Where: The Women’s Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
All welcome

New poetry from Paula Green! More details soon....

 Yay! https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/24-05-2019/unity-books-bestseller-chart-for-the-week-ending-may-24/

​Oh, but then:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/05/24/602469/this-weeks-top-ten-books

​Go little book, go!

We hope you can join us at one (of both) of our launch celebrations for The Grief Almanac: A Sequel, Vana Manasiadis's long-awaited folow-up to her debut poetry collection: Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima. 

Seraph Press warmly invites you to the launch of The Grief Almanac A Sequel by Vana Manasiadis, as part of the Auckland Writers Festival.

The book will be launched by Paula Green, and Vana will be joined by poets Anna Livesey, Vivienne Plumb and Jo Thorpe to celebrate with readings of poetry honouring mothers and daughters.

When: Wednesday 15 May, 6–7.30pm
Where: Beam Foyer, WZ Building AUT, 6–24 St Paul Street, Auckland

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Seraph Press and Unity Books warmly invite you to the launch of The Grief Almanac A Sequel by Vana Manasiadis.

The book will be launched by Fiona Farrell and Susannah Poole.

When: Tuesday 21 May, 6–7.30pm
Where: Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington

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I've been waiting for this book, Vana's follow-up to her debut Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima (2009), for a long time. A decade to be precise. This is worth the wait, and the time she has spent on these poems really shows in their richness, depth and uniqueness. To do what she wanted to do with these poems, she has had to develop her own forms to work with parallelling and connectness – one example is in this page spread below.

We're launching it in Auckland, as part of the Auckland Writers Festival, and in Wellington shortly afterwards – invitations coming shortly.

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