Chris Holdaway

(b. 1989) Poet, publisher, and translator from Aotearoa New Zealand. Chris founded and directs Compound Press, as well as Minarets poetry journal. He received his MA(Hons) in linguistics from the University of Auckland, and his MFA in poetry and translation from the University of Notre Dame. His day job is in software engineering and data science.

Mail: chris [at] compoundpress [dot] org

CV / complete publications

Books

Anti-Eclogues (Titus Books, forthcoming)

Gorse Poems (Titus Books, 2022)

HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost Press, 2018)

Translation

‘The Drug’ by Léon-Paul Fargue (Cordite, forthcoming)

4 poems by Miguel Otero Silva (Mercury Firs 6, 2025)

4 poems by Miguel Otero Silva (Shearsman Magazine 141/142, 2024)

Poems

‘Paorae’ (Landfall 247, 2024)

‘Love in the time of time’ (Western Humanities Review 75.1, 2021)

‘JC3.1BRU’, ‘AMND5.1THE’ (Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, 2021)

‘TT1.2MIR’, ‘AAC3.6CAES’ (unearthed, 2020)

‘Gorse’, ‘Heritage pamphlet’ (Shearsman Magazine 123/124, 2020)

‘Floating point’ (Cordite 93, 2021)

‘Caterpillar Valley’ (Oversound 5, 2019)


Reading at the Hammes Bookstore
University of Notre Dame, 15 April 2015

MFA Thesis Reading, Philbin Studio Theatre
University of Notre Dame, 20 April 2016