Librarian at Auckland Libraries Carin Smeaton interviews Hana Pera Aoake for the Heritage et AL blog regarding recent publications Some helpful models of grief with Compound Press, and Blame It On The Rain with Australian publisher No More Poetry.
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.
Also covered: The posthumous Notes to John (2025) by Joan Didion.
Hana Pera Aoake and special guests read to celebrate the release of Some helpful models of grief.
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.
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.
Compound Press presents a poetry and performance event in the always-welcoming confines of The Open Book in Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
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.
Compound Press presents a reading at the dynamic urban dream brokerage space in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.