Newsroom lists ‘Some helpful models of grief’ in best poetry of 2025
Poetry czar Nick Ascroft announces by royal decree the 10 best poetry collections of the year.
Profile on typographer behind Māori typeface used in ‘A bathful of kawakawa and hot water’
Hana Pera Aoake’s book A bathful of kawakawa and hot water featured the work of Samoan-New Zealand typographer Joseph Churchward, whose work is also featured in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia.
Hana Pera Aoake interview with Auckland Libraries
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.
Some helpful models of grief on The Spinoff
Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.
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
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 […]
A bathful of kawakawa and hot water on Consumer NZ
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. Read on the Consumer NZ website