Blueprints: constructing the creative writing PhD

Abstract

This paper looks at multimodal poetry in the contemporary Australian literary landscape and explores the potential for works combining text and image to change or enhance meaning within, outside and between the margins of the text. Australian poets and artists Bella Li, Toby Fitch, Jean Kent, Pam Brown and Caren Florence, among others, combine the visual medium with text to introduce further depths of (mis)understanding and to open alternatives responses for the audience. This interdisciplinary style follows on from 'artists' books' of the 20th century, a form of multimodal publishing which dominated the burgeoning independent publishing sector outside of the visual (gallery) and textual (traditional book) mainstream.

Artists as tricksters: Exploring boundary crossing between theory and practice in a new doctor of creative arts program

“…The degree of rigour involved in doctoral practice-led research is developed over time and involves particular considerations regarding the boundary crossing process between theory and practice. For example, Jeffery et al (2020) address the substantial planning involved within the context of their own practice-led creative writing doctoral studies. They discuss the added challenges of not knowing the extent to which creative practice can be planned for, as well as the critical and creative components within practice-led research not always cohesively connecting as part of the overall doctoral outcomes (Jeffery et al, 2020: 392).…”

“…For example, Jeffery et al (2020) address the substantial planning involved within the context of their own practice-led creative writing doctoral studies. They discuss the added challenges of not knowing the extent to which creative practice can be planned for, as well as the critical and creative components within practice-led research not always cohesively connecting as part of the overall doctoral outcomes (Jeffery et al, 2020: 392). It is also important to acknowledge the hybrid nature of creative writing doctorates in their capacity of “boundary crossing” between theoretical and creative research.…”