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.
Derek Henderson Book Signing
Category: Event
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.
Wellington Poetry Reading
Compound Press presents a reading at the dynamic urban dream brokerage space in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
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.
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.