{"product_id":"ashley-haywood-polyp","title":"Ashley Haywood, Polyp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MARY GILMORE AWARD 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHIGHLY COMMENDED in THE 2024 FIVE ISLANDS PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK OF POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e'There is a profound integrity to the ecological voice evident in \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePolyp\u003c\/i\u003e. Meticulously researched, these compressed yet expansive poems respond to the archives of paleologist and geologist Dorothy Hill with an intuitive, radical approach to language that allows the non-human world to speak, to resonate within the reader in profound ways. \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ePolyp \u003c\/i\u003eis science-based poetry that resonates with feeling and does so the more it is re-read. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eHaywood breaks the poetic line mid-word, turns phrases into sculptures or rock formations, makes the white space of the page stutter and breathe. The poetry enters vivid and thrilling conversation with other art forms. It is filled with questions, exclamations, dashes, ellipses and flashes of aphoristic insight and humour, and yet achieves a collection of coherence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe poems are finely crafted and as sparse as a coral reef or the remains of a forest. Haywood takes us out of our human ego into the vastness and connectedness of the natural world in the anthropocene. The poems reach for survival and call through time, imploring \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eWhere do I go? Who do I tell? Can you hear me?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThis collection is a new kind of ecopoetry and a testament to the power of very few words to express an immense amount.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ePolyp \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eprovides a fresh reading experience and proposes a new ecology of how language works. The collection is playful in form and deeply serious in how it offers us pause to feel and see the world anew. Though minimal in length, this collection swells with deep echoes of resonance. The reading experience is akin to wandering through an art exhibition or immersion in music. It acts as an artful field guide as to how we might attend differently to the relationship between the human and more than human world.' \u003cstrong\u003e2024 FIVE ISLANDS PRIZE JUDGES' REPORT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'The work of a compellingly unorthodox poet who experiments with form, format and voice in a way that combines human intimacy and compassion with the taxonomical terminology and systematic rigour of science, \u003cem\u003ePolyp\u003c\/em\u003e flows in many directions across many concepts and theories relating to Earth’s geological time scale and the impact of the Anthropocene.' Barnaby Smith in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/plumwoodmountain.com\/book-review\/barnaby-smith-reviews-polyp-by-ashley-haywood\/\"\u003ePlumwood Mountain Journal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolyp\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003ePolyp\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eWho’s there? What poem are you?\u003c\/em\u003e Exquistely 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?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiffracting ecology through body, burial through being, speech through matter, Haywood's map-making renders language molecular. Polyp charts cartographies of deep time, deep memory, distant horizons, where strangeness steeps into self, where the many-speaking mouths of lands-to-come wait to wake us. \u003cstrong\u003eShastra Deo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e... a quiet voice that draws us to consider the brevity of human consciousness against the enormous span of geological time … Thought-provoking, playful, poised. \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Shapcott Award Judges\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAshley Haywood\u003c\/strong\u003e is writer, artist and poet whose work often dwells in the art-science nexus. She is the inaugural UQ Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow (2017-2018), thrice shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize (2020 Runner-up, 2021, 2022), and winner of the QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge (2020) in her category. Ashley’s poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eAustralian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Meanjin, Southerly, Rabbit, AXON\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTEXT\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places. She holds a PhD on signs, minds and creativity, or how to write like painting, and has a background in biological science. She currently lives on Kau-in Kau-in of the Ningy Ningy and Gubbi Gubbi Peoples just north of Meanjin with her partner and their four-year-old son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAshley Haywood, \u003cem\u003ePolyp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2024. 148mm x 210mm. 64pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-66-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921_480x480.png?v=1701428706\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44163412164765,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Haywood_Polyp.png?v=1701428262","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ja\/products\/ashley-haywood-polyp","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}