THE BOOK OF UNREST, poems

56pp., paperback, Durban, 2022

Nick Mulgrew was born in Durban in 1990 and grew up in uMhlanga and Auckland, New Zealand. He is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and Director of the poetry press, uHlanga. Currently he lives in Edinburgh where he is a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee. He is the author of two collections of short fiction, The First Law of Sadness (2018 Nadine Gordimer Award) and Stations, The myth of this is that we're all in this together, a collection of poems and A Hibiscus Coast, a novel . He won the 2016 Thomas Pringle Award for his short story ’1-HR FOTO’, published in Oppikoppi’s annual zine, Ons Klyntji (2016), and in Stations.