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. Facebook Event Photos on Instagram Video on Instagram
Petroglyphs in Landfall
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.
the prism and the rose in Takahē magazine
the prism and the rose in Takahē magazine issue 113, published April 2025, by The Takahē Collective Trust.
Wellington Poetry Reading
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 Landfall
Reviewed by Erik Kennedy in Landfall Review Online. For what is essentially a bunch of smashed-up china in a pile, the prism and the rose looks remarkably good. It reads very easily, and even enjoyably. As you can imagine, it’s not simple to quote this kind of writing, even for review purposes. Just say a bunch of […]
New Zealand Book Awards Longlist 2025
Alison Glenny’s collection Slanted has made the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards. This follows a similar longlisting for her previous collection Bird Collector in the 2022 awards. 2025 New Zealand Book Awards Longlist
Petroglyphs Book Launch
Compound Press presents Petroglyphs, our second collection with US ex-pat poet Craig Foltz, launching in New Plymouth at the Might Could project space. Facebook Event Photos on Instagram
On posthumous publishing in The Spinoff
Compound Press director Chris Holdaway writes about the process and considerations of posthumously publishing the work of Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021). In February 2022, Schaeffer’s partner Abbey arrived at my home with a jammed filing box containing, in order, every poem he had sent to her over the long years of their relationship. Immense emotional weight […]
the prism and the rose Book Launch
Compound Press presents the launch event for the prism and the rose and the late poems, the posthumous debut collection by Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021), at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Readings by fellow poets Lisa Samuels and Sam Sampson. Facebook Event Photos on Instagram
the prism and the rose on RNZ
Book critic Anna Rankin reviews the prism and the rose and the late poems by Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021) on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme. Also covered: The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa by Catherine Comyn, published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa (2023) Listen on the RNZ website