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Newsroom lists ‘Some helpful models of grief’ in best poetry of 2025
Poetry czar Nick Ascroft announces by royal decree the 10 best poetry collections of the year.
December 10, 2025
Poetry czar Nick Ascroft announces by royal decree the 10 best poetry collections of the year.
Hana Pera Aoake’s book A bathful of kawakawa and hot water featured the work of Samoan-New Zealand typographer Joseph Churchward, whose work is also featured in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia.
Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.
The Aotearoa New Zealand launch of The Tranquility of Solitude takes place at Auckland’s premier art book retailer Lamplight Books, 6pm Thursday 31 July, with the artist in attendance to sign books.
Book critic Anna Rankin reviews Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme.
Launch event for ‘Some helpful models of grief’ by Hana Pera Aoake at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
We were blessed by a mihi from Nova Paul, with poetry from special guests Arielle Walker, Liam Jacobson, and Caron Smeaton.
Compound Press holds a stall at the Object Book Fair which takes place in conjunction across two days, presenting our core art and poetry titles,
Compound Press attended with Melbourne Art Book Fair 2025 stallholder fair in the evocative setting of the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria, as part of the Expensive Hobby Independent Distribution collective.
Compound Press presents a poetry and performance event in the always-welcoming confines of The Open Book in Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Facebook Event Photos on
Petroglyphs a new poetry collection by Craig Foltz is reviewed by Mary Macpherson in The Landfall Tauraka Review, the online companion to Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal.
Compound Press presents a reading at the dynamic urban dream brokerage space in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Facebook Event Photos on Instagram
the prism and the rose in Takahē magazine issue 113, published April 2025, by The Takahē Collective Trust.