Ashleigh Young is poetry editor at The Spinoff Review of Books. She is the author of two poetry collections, Magnificent Moon (2012) and How I Get Ready (2019), and the essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (2016).
A chat with departing Friday Poem editor Ashleigh Young and incoming Friday Poem editor Chris Tse.
For a few weeks we haven’t been able to escape each other or ourselves or our own terrible cooking.
On writing and not writing about bread.
'It feels like there is an inner circle of walking that I can no longer break into, some pleasure I have become too stupid to feel. Maybe it’s the internet’s fault.'
'When you reach for the exact same thing day after day, your grasp on everything else in the world loosens.'
The outside is telling us, ‘I could do that again whenever I wanted. You think about that.’
"This will be my lockdown anthem, to remind me that a feeling of endlessness and shapelessness doesn’t have to be ominous – maybe it can be joyful, and anarchic, and great."
New work by Ashleigh Young from her upcoming collection How I Get Ready.
Ashleigh Young reviews More of Us, a collection of poetry written by migrants and refugees.
Ashleigh Young talks about her feelings as she steps into her new role as poetry editor at The Spinoff Review of Books.
Every day this week the Spinoff Review of Books is publishing a new poem in the build-up to the Phantom Billstickers national poetry day on Friday. Today: a new poem by Ashleigh Young
New verse by a Wellington writer who has become the world's most famous New Zealand author, Ashleigh Young.
Ashleigh Young resolves the burning issue facing all New Zealanders: the correct way to spell our beloved national particle. Hint: it's not "aye".
Ashleigh Young files a report on her residency at the Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn as one of the winners of the 2016 The Surrey Hotel Steve Braunias Memorial Writers Residency in Association with The Spinoff Award.
New verse by Wellington writer Ashleigh Young.
All week this week 10 readers choose their favourite books of the year. Come in, number six: Ashleigh Young.
The Friday poem by Ashleigh Young.
