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.
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.
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 aside, we were faced with a number of practical problems deciding how to arrive at a published legacy for the author and the work.
Community Journalist / Kaihaurapa Kōrero Hapori at Consumer NZ highlights A bathful of kawakawa and hot water by Hana Pera Aoake as part of a feature on Māori art and culture for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.