Melbourne Art Book Fair 2025
Compound Press attended with Melbourne Art Book Fair 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.
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.
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 Takahē magazine
the prism and the rose in Takahē magazine issue 113, published April 2025, by The Takahē Collective Trust.
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
Craig Foltz’s Locals Only an honorable mention in 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Craig Foltz’s Locals Only is highly recommended by Lisa Samuels in the Conversations 20 best 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century: as chosen by experts.
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 […]