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Turning Data into Poetry

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This chapter focuses on turning data into poetry which is commonly referred to as participant-voiced poems. Whilst there are many examples of ‘completed’ poems in Poetic Inquiry, there is less about the process of crafting a poem from interview data. In this section, examples will be used to show how to turn data (e.g. interviews) into poetry and offer clusters of poems focusing on various topics and themes throughout. Also, I include an example of a multi-voiced poem to show the different forms Poetic Inquiry can take.

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Owton, H. (2017). Turning Data into Poetry. In: Doing Poetic Inquiry. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64577-3_4

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