Poetry method and education research : doing critical decolonising and political inquiry What poetry does for us in education and research Katie Fitzpatrick and Esther Fitzpatrick Poetic inquiry Lynn Butler Kisber Poetic representations not quite poetry and poemish : some methodological reflections Andrew Sparkes Education and as art : a found poetry suite Monica Prendergast Sensible poets and the poetic sensibility : mitigating neoliberal audit culture in education through arts based research Robert Rinehart Poetry and cancer : six ruminations Carl Leggo Writing the university through poetry : the pleasure of scholarship against the spike of neoliberalism Katie Fitzpatrick My middle aged rage burns the template in front of the provosts office after the assessment meeting Sandra Faulkner Community and belonging : an international students journey in North America Frank Worrell The munchkin and the medicine man : poetrys place in a hard world Laura Hope Gill Becoming a first time mother as an international graduate student : a poetic ethnography Kuo Zhang Cultivating resonant images through poetic meditation : a de colonial approach to educational research Kakali Bhattacharya Making the invisible visible : poetic explorations of a cross cultural researcher Pauline Adams The Tukutuku panel is never bare : weaving bicultural relationships through poetic performances Virginia Tamanui and Esther Fitzpatrick Traversing Pacific indigenous identities in Aotearoa : blood ink lives Jacoba Matapo and Jean M. Allen Why I use a poem in every single classroom Selina Tusitala Marsh Re turning the world into poetry [an alternative education portfolio] Adrian Schoone Creasing and folding language in dance education research Alys Longley Poetry drops a plumbline into meaning : findings from an inquiry into teacher creativity Shelley Tracey Memory poetry art and children : understanding the past from the present Maria Esperanza Rock Nunez. Utilising a cross disciplinary approach that spans the fields of qualitative inquiry and educational research this book offers for the first time a methodological text that focuses on poetry and educational research. It provides both analysis and examples of how poetry can be employed in a range of different ways for different purposes throughout the research process. This book is an essential resource for students and researchers in education programmes and those who teach in graduate research methods courses