TY - JOUR AU - Sarah MacKenzie-Dawson, PY - 2022/12/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Review of “Doing Poetic Inquiry” by Helen Owton (2017) JF - Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal JA - Art/Research International VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Art/Research Reviews DO - 10.18432/ari29696 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29696 SP - 543-553 AB - <p>Directed toward the novice, Helen Owton’s (2017) book, <em>Doing Poetic Inquiry,</em> introduces the reader to poetry as an approach to research that allows one to enter into a phenomenological space of relational experience and understanding. Striving toward accessibility, she captures the tensions that exists within qualitative research by offering a guide that is both personal and methodologically orientated. Across the space of this review, I blend found poetry with prose as a means of entering into dialogue with this work. This dialogue lives in a messy space of intention and understanding where knowing lives within the body—the heart, the personal and political. Owton’s work is a compassionate gesture that offers concrete examples and suggestions inviting the reader to reconsider their own research practices and the discursive spaces in which those practices live.</p> ER -