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Beyond facts and accuracies: long form poetry as biographical method

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posted on 2024-11-01, 18:17 authored by Jessica WilkinsonJessica Wilkinson
This paper addresses long form poetry as non-fiction medium-specifically as biographical medium-discussing examples by writers such as Jordie Albiston, Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian, to consider the diversity of ways in which poets are writing/documenting the lives of historical figures. My aim is to demonstrate how poetic biographies can extend our representations of these characters into new dimensions, using poetic play-the line, metaphor, frisson, juxtaposition, space and rhythm-to convey aspects of character and experience in innovative and exciting ways. I propose an extension of non-fiction writing into the poetic form as a way towards addressing historical inaccuracies and aporias, thus not only opening a space for the representation of marginal voices, but offering new frameworks for life writing.

History

Journal

Axon Journal

Issue

7

Start page

1

End page

15

Total pages

15

Publisher

University of Canberra * Faculty of Arts and Design

Place published

Australia

Language

English

Copyright

© Authors

Former Identifier

2006050152

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2015-06-23