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1 Complex Cells i "After Earth’s form-", Ashley Haywood , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
1 y separately published work icon Polyp Ashley Haywood , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2024 27375883 2024 selected work poetry

'Polyp, named after the coral's tentacular polyp, is Ashley Haywood's highly anticipated debut collection of poetry. Drawing upon paleologist and geologist Dorothy Hill's collected papers for inspiration, Polyp explores corals, fossils, seeds; tracing out the I of the poems through strata, deep-time, and the Anthropocene with urgency, compassion and the kind of anxiety that spurs action. This remarkable livre compose seeks the ineffable in the loops and flows of ecological and geological systems, as well as through its own linguistic formalities and experimentations. Polyp grows from itself like fractal shoots, then snips its feet to create new forms. A wild I slips between layers on the page, desirous of multiplicities, time-fullness and connection, looking back to ask, Who's there? What poem are you? Exquisitely rendered through fragmentation and recombination, Haywood's debut collection offers a vital and nuanced reinvigoration of ecopoetics, raising the questions for each of us, 'What have I done, what haven't I done?' (Publication summary) 

1 Hippokampos i "Tomorrow night", Ashley Haywood , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 103)
1 Salt Lake i "Pulse:", Ashley Haywood , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Scheme of Things i "Breath", Ashley Haywood , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 47)
1 Writing With Swamp: An E-Co[|]Lab Mani-Fe[A]St[O] Virginia Barratt , Ashley Haywood , Nick Taylor , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 10 no. 2 2020;
1 Shadowtime in the Eromanga Sea i "I fold my body inside the cave’s throat", Ashley Haywood , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 70)
1 Portrait i "tableland face", Ashley Haywood , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 76 no. 3 2017;
1 The Cell of My Art as an Amoeba Ashley Haywood , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , April vol. 7 no. 1 2017;
1 On Long Walk Away from Away and Waking with the Sun i "light] and spoor [who in the?]", Ashley Haywood , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , October 2016;
1 Ashley Haywood Reviews Nothing Sacred by Linda Weste Ashley Haywood , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016;

— Review of Nothing Sacred : A Novel in Verse Linda Weste , 2015 single work novel
1 Bittersweet Is Umami : Ashley Haywood Reviews ‘Eating My Grandmother : A Grief Cycle’ by Krissy Kneen Ashley Haywood , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;

— Review of Eating My Grandmother : A Grief Cycle Krissy Kneen , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Harlequin Blue; or, A Place like Paris and a New Brain Map Ashley Haywood , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 30 2015;
1 The Plot Ashley Haywood , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Out of Place : Prose Poems and Microfiction 2015; (p. 37)
1 The Wall Reports Ashley Haywood , 2013 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , 17 April no. 17 2013;
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