Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Description
In response to the question ‘What use is poetry?’ Meena Alexander writes, ‘We have poetry / So we do not die of history’. She adds ‘I had no idea what I meant’. In this contribution, I reflect briefly on the potential of poetry as a research tool or method, as a pedagogical device, and as a form that can often express more than we might know. Poetry can be an alternative to narrative auto-ethnography or autobiography. I read some poems of my own and end with ‘Find the Poets’ by Tishani Doshi.
Period
22 Oct 2021
Event title
Millennium Conference: Re-writing the International