The Pull of Words

Reliving a Poetry Symposium through Found Poetry

Authors

  • Sarah Penwarden Laidlaw College
  • Adrian Schoone Auckland University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29572

Keywords:

poetic inquiry, found poetry, phenomenology, narrative, metaphor, conference

Abstract

Poetic inquirers immerse themselves in the flow of life, listening for art in the ordinary world, offering a response through voice and written word. The biennial International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, which draws poet-scholars from across disciplines and the world, showcases the artful use of poetry in research as a method of inquiry. In this article, the Fifth Symposium on Poetic Inquiry is relived by two attendees who interrogate found poems they each created from presentations and performances. The poems are brought together as a means of researching each author’s respective approaches to creating found poetry. In this article, the authors converse about their methodological frameworks: phenomenology and metaphor/ narrative. Central to this dialogue is how the found poem is listened for, and how artful responses are made to the pull of words. The authors conclude by considering the ethics of rehousing others’ words and the challenge this inquiry presents to our own private sense-making in academic conferences.

Author Biographies

Sarah Penwarden, Laidlaw College

Sarah Penwarden is a counsellor educator at a tertiary college and a therapist in private practice in Auckland, New Zealand. She is also a poet with 40 poems published in literary journals in New Zealand/Australia. She is interested in cross-pollinations between poetry, therapy, research, and education. Her recent publication has been on the use of found poetry in narrative therapy.

Adrian Schoone, Auckland University of Technology

Adrian Schoone PhD, lectures in Education at the AUT University, New Zealand. His arts-based research explores alternatives in education provision and education access for disenfranchised learners.

Published

2021-09-04

How to Cite

Penwarden, S., & Schoone, A. (2021). The Pull of Words: Reliving a Poetry Symposium through Found Poetry. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 6(2), 347–368. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29572