Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.
Some helpful models of grief on The Spinoff
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Derek Henderson Book Signing
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.
Some helpful models of grief on RNZ
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.
Also covered: The posthumous Notes to John (2025) by Joan Didion.
Some helpful models of grief Book Launch
Hana Pera Aoake and special guests read to celebrate the release of Some helpful models of grief.
Objectspace Book Fair
Objectspace Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland introduces Object Book Space, a full-day symposium on the book as an object of design featuring talks and workshops with leading designers and publishers from Aotearoa and Australia.
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, as well as a suite of publications from affiliate publishers including Daylight Books (USA), and the estates of artists Ian Scott and Harvey Benge.
Melbourne Art Book Fair 2025
Compound Press attended with MABF 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.
We launched The Tranquility of Solitude by photographer Derek Henderson in a book signing event with the artist in attendance from Sydney.
Auckland Poetry Reading
Compound Press presents a poetry and performance event in the always-welcoming confines of The Open Book in Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Petroglyphs in Landfall
Petroglyphs by Craig Foltz is reviewed by Mary Macpherson in Landfall Review Online.
While the book’s design and structure are significant, the real excitement of this collection lies in being inside the poems, where, true to the poet’s promise, words flit around the edges of sense. The dense prose poems of INTACT are fuelled by absurdist lists and mini pronouncements, which allow Foltz to skip nimbly from one assertion to another to create elusive surreal worlds. At times there are playful searches for taxonomy but what we’re left with is the brush of a poem as it glides by.
Wellington Poetry Reading
Compound Press presents a reading at the dynamic urban dream brokerage space in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
the prism and the rose in Takahē
Reviewed by Tulia Thompson in Takahē.
Lemalu’s extensive use of direct quotes and pop culture references sometimes means that imagery doubles back uncomfortably. In “neo” he writes the superb, ‘search for the perfect blossom / and you wont find it / they are all perfect.’ I imagine the laden branches of warm pink blossoms that I once saw in springtime Vancouver, then feel disheartened upon realising that it is a reworked quote from The Last Samurai with a serious long-haired Tom Cruise and a serious case of what theorist Edward Said would call ‘Orientalism.’ I am left with the aftertaste of cherry cola.