Doing Poetic Inquiry

Helen Owton is a chartered psychologist and Lecturer in Sport and Fitness and Associate Lecturer in Social Psychology at The Open University. She has published numerous papers employing creative methodologies, specifically poetry and art, and won the ‘Citation for Excellence’ award from the Qualitative Methods of Psychology section of the British Psychological Society.

• Dedication.- Foreword.- Contents.- Acknowledgements.- List of Tables/Figures.- Overview of the Book.- Author Biography.- 1.0Introducing Poetic Inquiry.- 2.0Shaping Poetic Inquiry.- 3.0Poetry as data.- 4.0Turning data into poetry.- 5.0Poetry as literature review.- 6.0Poetry as reflective writing.- 7.0Judging Poetic Inquiry.- 8.0Future possibilities of Poetic Inquiry.- Index.

“This book is written using a personal and emotive account and inevitably brings the reader’s emotions to the fore. … Owton achieves what she set out to do; that is, inform novices of the potential power and many uses of poetic inquiry, as well as justifying its uses as a rigorous and arduous in its’ own right.” (Zainab Yusuf, Qualitative Methods in Psychology/QMiP Bulletin, Iss. 25, 2018)