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Minarets 15 features visual text by Priyanka Chhabra () brought into conversation with poets from Aotearoa by .
13/11/2025

Minarets 15 features visual text by Priyanka Chhabra () brought into conversation with poets from Aotearoa by .

Minarets 15 features poetry and art from brought into conversation with poets and artists from South Asia and its dias...
13/11/2025

Minarets 15 features poetry and art from brought into conversation with poets and artists from South Asia and its diaspora by .

Minarets 15 features poetry and stills from video work by brought into conversation with poets from Aotearoa by .
12/11/2025

Minarets 15 features poetry and stills from video work by brought into conversation with poets from Aotearoa by .

Outlook isn’t great from Compound HQ on the Central Plateau. Devastating impact on the maunga.
10/11/2025

Outlook isn’t great from Compound HQ on the Central Plateau. Devastating impact on the maunga.

Readings & installations to celebrate the launch of our special issue connecting the poetics of Aotearoa with South Asia...
27/10/2025

Readings & installations to celebrate the launch of our special issue connecting the poetics of Aotearoa with South Asia and its diaspora, edited by Nirvana Haldar.

Readings by Arielle Walker, Jasmin Singh, Liam Jacobson (more TBC).
Installations and screenings of works by international contributors Imaad Majeed, Priyanka Chhabra (more TBC).

Join us at for some snacks and beverages in the company of good words.

Coming November 2025 from the vision of Nirvana Haldar, connecting poetries and poetics of Aotearoa New Zealand with tha...
14/10/2025

Coming November 2025 from the vision of Nirvana Haldar, connecting poetries and poetics of Aotearoa New Zealand with that of South Asia and its diaspora. Featuring art by Llenyd Price. Details on launch event in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland coming soon.

Launching ‘Some helpful models of grief’ by Hana Pera Aoake at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.We were bless...
27/06/2025

Launching ‘Some helpful models of grief’ by Hana Pera Aoake at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

We were blessed by a mihi from Nova Paul, with poetry from special guests Arielle Walker, Liam Jacobson, and Caron Smeaton.

Kia ora to all who came out 💚

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.

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