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chriscorsonscott is working hard for Compound at the Objectspace book fair in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Featuring our po...
15/06/2025

chriscorsonscott is working hard for Compound at the Objectspace book fair in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Featuring our poetry and art titles, as well as affiliate publications from daylightbooks and the estate of harvey.benge

Making peace with final proofs 🤲
09/06/2025

Making peace with final proofs 🤲

Compound Press presents 'Some helpful models of grief', the new collection of poetry by Hana Pera Aoake, with illustrati...
01/06/2025

Compound Press presents 'Some helpful models of grief', the new collection of poetry by Hana Pera Aoake, with illustrations by Priscilla Rose Howe.

5:30pm at Lamplight Books
G01/100 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland

Book sales, signings, and readings featuring special guests:
Arielle Walker
Carin Smeaton
Liam Jacobson

Praise for 'Some helpful models of grief':

"Everything Hana writes has a pulse. It could be moss, Britney or Plato but it sings a song that is nervous, in the body and out of the body, you’d be a fool not to take in all of Hana’s grins."

—Talia Marshall

"Hana’s writing is daring, elliptical, charismatic and above all, interesting. The kind of writer where it doesn’t matter what the subject is, you know you are always in good company."

—Hera Lindsay Bird

About the book:
A composite chronicle of various loves—desired, lost, or never realised—and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake’s characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and humour, often all within the very same breath. The personal is the political is the personal.

About the author:
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) is an artist, writer, curator and sweaty m**f from Aotearoa. Hana’s first book, 'A bath full of kawakawa and hot water', was published with Compound Press in 2020. Their second book, 'Blame it on the rain' was published in 2025 with no more poetry (Australia). They are also publishing a book of essays with Discipline (Australia) in late 2025. Hana is currently slogging through hell and doing a PhD at Auckland University of Technology. Hana lives in the shadow of Pūtauaki maunga and likes dirt and worms, long walks on the beach, Pilates, orange wine and sparkling water.

Headquarters or headwaters?
25/05/2025

Headquarters or headwaters?

Praise for 'Some helpful models of grief', the new collection of poetry by Hana Pera Aoake, launching 27 June 2025.
23/05/2025

Praise for 'Some helpful models of grief', the new collection of poetry by Hana Pera Aoake, launching 27 June 2025.


Derek Henderson signing at Melbourne Art Book Fair 🖋️derekhendersonphotongvmelbourne
17/05/2025

Derek Henderson signing at Melbourne Art Book Fair 🖋️

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Setting up for the Melbourne Art Book Fair at the ngvmelbourne with the expensive_hobby_distribution crew 🫨derekhenderso...
15/05/2025

Setting up for the Melbourne Art Book Fair at the ngvmelbourne with the expensive_hobby_distribution crew 🫨

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A new book by Hana Pera Aoake following up from the legendary A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water. A composite chronicle...
07/05/2025

A new book by Hana Pera Aoake following up from the legendary A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water. A composite chronicle of various loves—desired, lost, or never realised—and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake’s characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and humour, often all within the very same breath. The personal is the political is the personal.

Illustrations by Priscilla Rose Howe.
Coming late June 2025.

Well this is happening 🤩
04/05/2025

Well this is happening 🤩




We're taking 'The Tranquility of Solitude' to the Melbourne Art Book Fair, hosted at the NGV. We'll be part of the Expen...
30/04/2025

We're taking 'The Tranquility of Solitude' to the Melbourne Art Book Fair, hosted at the NGV. We'll be part of the Expensive Hobby Distribution table. Derek Henderson will do a book signing at the table on Saturday 17 May between 12-1pm. The book is also available with one of two prints in limited editions of 35 each.

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