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Unprepared for the depth of my feelings' - capturing grief in older people through research poetry

- Gerber, Katrin, Brijnath, Bianca, Lock, Kayla, Bryant, Christina, Hills, Danny, Hjorth, Larissa

Authors: Gerber, Katrin , Brijnath, Bianca , Lock, Kayla , Bryant, Christina , Hills, Danny , Hjorth, Larissa
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Age and Ageing Vol. 51, no. 3 (2022), p.
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Description: Background: Older people are more likely to experience bereavements than any other age group. However, in healthcare and society, their grief experiences and support needs receive limited attention. Through innovative, arts-based research poetry, this study aimed to capture older people's bereavement stories and the effects of grief on their physical and mental health. Method: Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 18 bereaved older adults were analysed using thematic and poetic narrative analysis, following a five-step approach of immersion, creation, critical reflection, ethics and engagement. Results: Research poems were used to illustrate three themes of bereavement experiences among older adults: feeling unprepared, accumulation of losses and ripple effects of grief. While half of participants reported that the death of their family member was expected, many felt unprepared despite having experienced multiple bereavements throughout their life. Instead, the accumulation of losses had a compounding effect on their health and well-being. While these ripple effects of grief focussed on emotional and mental health consequences, many also reported physical health effects like the onset of a new condition or the worsening of an existing one. In its most extreme form, grief was connected with a perceived increased mortality risk. Conclusions: By using poetry to draw attention to the intense and often long-lasting effects of grief on older people's health and well-being, this article offers emotional, engaging and immersive insights into their unique bereavement experiences and thereby challenges the notion that grief has an expiry date. © 2022 The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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Francis Adams and 'Songs of the Army of the Night': Negotiating difference, maintaining commitment

- Tasker, Meg

Authors: Tasker, Meg
Date: 2002
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Victorian Poetry Vol. 40, no. 1 (Spr 2002), p. 71-86
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Description: This essay examines the way in which, after establishing a broad literary and journalistic reputation in both England and Australia, Adams adopted a split writing position in Songs of the Army of the Night. Comprising mostly ballads in the style of Chartist protest poetry, the Songs are intertextually determined; to some extent they have a generic life of their own. Yet in adopting the form of popular verse, using vernacular forms and diction, Adams nonetheless constructs a persona that is consistent with much of his more "literary" writing. Songs of the Army of the Night does more than demonstrate conflict in Adams' work between the claims of "art" and "life," between his upper middle-class cultural affiliations and working-class political sympathies. Despite this element of conflict, the configuration of speaking positions is not dialectic, but dialogic in the Bakhtinian sense. (2) That is, the voices or speaking positions in the poetry do not work through opposition to achieve synthesis or progress, or to generate a new set of dialectical terms; rather, they co-exist in a synchronous multiplicity that allows the "implied poet" of the whole volume to be constructed as both a member of the oppressed masses and a middle-class sympathizer.
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Etching my initials

- Blaiklok, Bronwyn

Authors: Blaiklok, Bronwyn
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book
Relation: Union Poets Series Chapbooks No. 23
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Description: "In 'Etching My Initials'Blaiklock invites us to 'listen on a lean' to poems of Alice Springs, the goldfields and her chain-smoking guitar teacher. Here is a voice both tender and tough, of sound bombs and balance; so bend an ear to Bronwyn Blaiklock - leaning in, she might just knock you over". --Nathan Curnow--; "This collection is quiet and potent. It tiptoes into your mind like a reverse theif that leaves little treasure parcels in the imagination". --Emilie Zoey Baker-- (From back cover)

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The expendable teacher in covid-19 times : a poetic inquiry into the reconfiguration of governmentality in victorian schools

- Zonca, Benjamin, Ambrosy, Josh

Authors: Zonca, Benjamin , Ambrosy, Josh
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies Vol. 19, no. 1 (2021), p. 212-248
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Description: The actualization of a neoliberal rationality has been widely explored in global education policy and Australian schools. This paper draws on engagements with neoliberalism as rationality made ‘real’ through government practices, specifically those that reify the teaching profession into one of risk-management and problem-solving at the expense of deliberation about purposes. In this paper, redacted policy poetry and participant-voiced poetry are employed in parallel to explore the COVID-19 crisis as it emerged in the State of Victoria, Australia with a specific focus on the reconfiguration of risk-management discourses through blanket policy directive. This paper identifies and explores three themes highlighted by this reconfiguration of risk discourse and shifts in modes of governance during this time that are magnified by a teacher’s affective and practical responses to the situation. They are: (1) collective teacher response to overt policy decisions that compel the teacher to embrace risk; (2) contradictions of expectation for schools to continue as usual; and (3) an explicit shift away from instrumental evidence-based pedagogies toward new purposes, pedagogies, and community engagement with little guidance. © 2021, Institute for Education Policy Studies. All rights reserved.

Poetic possibilities

- Manning, Debra

Authors: Manning, Debra
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Creative Approaches to Research Vol. 1, no. 2 (2008), p. 55-70
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Description: 'I'm not into poetry' I told Eva, a colleague who was encouraging me to create poems from my research interviews. This paper discusses how a crisis in my doctoral research, which explores lecturers' experiences of teaching in multicultural classrooms, led me to take up Eva's challenge. It reflects on possibilities that emerged to see research and my role as a researcher very differently. Writing poetic stories challenged my long-established beliefs about the nature of social research and created an opportunity to re-vision my response to my colleagues' confronting perspectives. I present one of the poetic stories to show something of my struggle with this lecturer's views, and my efforts to loosen the hold of my positivist beliefs about knowledge. Creating poetic stories opened possibilities for me to explore a new relationship with research and poetry.

The poetic experience of the world

- Abbott, Mathew

Authors: Abbott, Mathew
Date: 2010
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 18, no. 4 (2010), p. 493-516
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Description: In this article I develop Heidegger’s phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide grounds for rejecting claims that he lapses into linguistic idealism. Proceeding via an analysis of the three concepts of language operative in the philosopher’s work, I demonstrate how poetic language challenges language’s designative and world‐disclosive functions. The experience with poetic language, which disrupts Dasein’s absorption by emerging out of equipmentality in the mode of the broken tool, brings Dasein to wonder at the world’s existence in such a way that doubt about its reality cannot enter the picture.
Description: Abstract In this article I develop Heidegger’s phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide grounds for rejecting claims that he lapses into linguistic idealism. Proceeding via an analysis of the three concepts of language operative in the philosopher’s work, I demonstrate how poetic language challenges language’s designative and world‐disclosive functions. The experience with poetic language, which disrupts Dasein’s absorption by emerging out of equipmentality in the mode of the broken tool, brings Dasein to wonder at the world’s existence in such a way that doubt about its reality cannot enter the picture.

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