Slow Combusting Hymn
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.faculty | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.location | Markwell, Australia | |
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.peer_review_status | Peer reviewed before publication | |
| avondale-bepress-to-dspace.summary | <p><strong>Research background</strong></p> <p>The published poems that form my ‘Slow Combusting Hymn’ portfolio reflect aspects of the scope and experience of my doctoral program and research interests, which have at their core a <em>personal</em> engagement with writing as a therapeutic response to witnessing another person’s illness or death. These poems might be regarded as works of mourning, and a responsive insistence on creating some kind of textual continuity.</p> <p><strong>Research Contribution</strong></p> <p>The production/publication of this series of poems engage with the instinctive (and constructive) impulse to create something beyond the catastrophic; an impulse beautifully illustrated by Adrienne Rich in her essay “Someone is Writing a Poem”:</p> <p>Take that old, material utensil, language, found all about you, blank with familiarity, smeared with daily use, and make it into something that means more than it says. What poetry is made of is so old, so familiar, that it’s easy to forget that it’s not just the words, but the poly rhythmic sounds, speech in its first endeavours (every poems breaks a silence that had to be overcome), prismatic meaning lit by each other’s light, stained by each other’s shadows. In the wash of poetry the old, beaten, worn stones of language take on colors that disappear when you sieve them up out of the stream bed and try to sort them out. (par.1)</p> <p>Explicit in Rich’s observations about writing are three key ideas: firstly, that suffering shrouded in silence will ultimately demand the inventiveness of speech; secondly, making meaning from experience is made possible through human connection, and lastly; poetic language carries with it the ability to animate new imaginings and meanings<strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>Research Significance (Evidence of excellence)<br /></strong></p> <p>This portfolio of poems appears in an anthology edited by high profile poets Jean Kent and Kit Kelen. My work appears alongside internationally regarded poets such as Les Murray, and the title for <em>A Slow Combusting Hymn</em> is taken from the title of one of my poems. This commercially circulated poetry book is available nationally and internationally.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.abstract | <p>The published poems that form the authors ‘Slow Combusting Hymn’ portfolio reflect aspects of the scope and experience of their doctoral program and research interests, which have at their core a <em>personal</em> engagement with writing as a therapeutic response to witnessing another person’s illness or death. These poems might be regarded as works of mourning, and a responsive insistence on creating some kind of textual continuity.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.articleid | 1029 | |
| avondale-bepress.authors | Carolyn Rickett | |
| avondale-bepress.context-key | 6779261 | |
| avondale-bepress.coverpage-url | https://research.avondale.edu.au/arts_creativeworks/28 | |
| avondale-bepress.document-type | book | |
| avondale-bepress.field.author_faculty_discipline | Arts | |
| avondale-bepress.field.comments | <p>Due to copyright restrictions this creative work is unavailable for download.</p> <p>© 2014 Association of Stories in Macao (ASM)</p> <p><em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region</em> may be accessed from the publisher <a href="https://asmacao.org/publications/">here.</a></p> <p>Staff and Students of Avondale College may access <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region</em> from Avondale College Library (829.1 K29 1).</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.creator | <p><strong>Research background</strong></p> <p>The published poems that form my ‘Slow Combusting Hymn’ portfolio reflect aspects of the scope and experience of my doctoral program and research interests, which have at their core a <em>personal</em> engagement with writing as a therapeutic response to witnessing another person’s illness or death. These poems might be regarded as works of mourning, and a responsive insistence on creating some kind of textual continuity.</p> <p><strong>Research Contribution</strong></p> <p>The production/publication of this series of poems engage with the instinctive (and constructive) impulse to create something beyond the catastrophic; an impulse beautifully illustrated by Adrienne Rich in her essay “Someone is Writing a Poem”:</p> <p>Take that old, material utensil, language, found all about you, blank with familiarity, smeared with daily use, and make it into something that means more than it says. What poetry is made of is so old, so familiar, that it’s easy to forget that it’s not just the words, but the poly rhythmic sounds, speech in its first endeavours (every poems breaks a silence that had to be overcome), prismatic meaning lit by each other’s light, stained by each other’s shadows. In the wash of poetry the old, beaten, worn stones of language take on colors that disappear when you sieve them up out of the stream bed and try to sort them out. (par.1)</p> <p>Explicit in Rich’s observations about writing are three key ideas: firstly, that suffering shrouded in silence will ultimately demand the inventiveness of speech; secondly, making meaning from experience is made possible through human connection, and lastly; poetic language carries with it the ability to animate new imaginings and meanings<strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>Research Significance (Evidence of excellence)<br /></strong></p> <p>This portfolio of poems appears in an anthology edited by high profile poets Jean Kent and Kit Kelen. My work appears alongside internationally regarded poets such as Les Murray, and the title for <em>A Slow Combusting Hymn</em> is taken from the title of one of my poems. This commercially circulated poetry book is available nationally and internationally.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.custom_citation | <p>Rickett, C. (2014). Carolyn Rickett. In J. Kent & K. Kelen (Eds.), <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about the Newcastle and Hunter Region</em> (pp. 244-248). Markwell, Australia: Cerberus Press.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.embargo_date | 2015-03-04T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.field_of_education | 09 Society and Culture | |
| avondale-bepress.field.for | 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting) | |
| avondale-bepress.field.isbn | 9789996542718 | |
| avondale-bepress.field.ntro | Creative Work - Textual | |
| avondale-bepress.field.peer_review | Before publication | |
| avondale-bepress.field.place | Markwell, Australia | |
| avondale-bepress.field.publication_date | 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.field.publisher | Cerberus Press | |
| avondale-bepress.field.quality | Disseminated via nationally recognised outlet or entity | |
| avondale-bepress.field.reportable_items | Creative Work | |
| avondale-bepress.field.scale | Major | |
| avondale-bepress.field.source_publication | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Rickett, C. (2014). Carolyn Rickett. In J. Kent & K. Kelen (Eds.), <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about the Newcastle and Hunter Region</em> (pp. 244-248). Markwell, Australia: ASM/Cerberus Press.</p> | |
| avondale-bepress.field.staff_classification | Permanent | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | poetry | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | Newcastle | |
| avondale-bepress.keywords | Hunter region | |
| avondale-bepress.label | 28 | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-date | 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z | |
| avondale-bepress.publication-title | Arts Creative Works | |
| avondale-bepress.state | published | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-date | 2015-03-04T21:39:29Z | |
| avondale-bepress.submission-path | arts_creativeworks/28 | |
| avondale-bepress.title | Slow Combusting Hymn | |
| avondale-bepress.type | article | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rickett, Carolyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-01T00:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-01T00:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2015-03-04T21:39:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>The published poems that form the authors ‘Slow Combusting Hymn’ portfolio reflect aspects of the scope and experience of their doctoral program and research interests, which have at their core a <em>personal</em> engagement with writing as a therapeutic response to witnessing another person’s illness or death. These poems might be regarded as works of mourning, and a responsive insistence on creating some kind of textual continuity.</p> | |
| dc.description.version | Before publication | |
| dc.identifier.citation | <p>Rickett, C. (2014). Carolyn Rickett. In J. Kent & K. Kelen (Eds.), <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about the Newcastle and Hunter Region</em> (pp. 244-248). Markwell, Australia: Cerberus Press.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789996542718 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/123456789/06779261 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_us | |
| dc.provenance | <p>This creative work was originally published as:</p> <p>Rickett, C. (2014). Carolyn Rickett. In J. Kent & K. Kelen (Eds.), <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about the Newcastle and Hunter Region</em> (pp. 244-248). Markwell, Australia: ASM/Cerberus Press.</p> | |
| dc.publisher | Cerberus Press | |
| dc.rights | <p>Due to copyright restrictions this creative work is unavailable for download.</p> <p>© 2014 Association of Stories in Macao (ASM)</p> <p><em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region</em> may be accessed from the publisher <a href="https://asmacao.org/publications/">here.</a></p> <p>Staff and Students of Avondale College may access <em>A slow combusting hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region</em> from Avondale College Library (829.1 K29 1).</p> | |
| dc.subject | poetry | |
| dc.subject | Newcastle | |
| dc.subject | Hunter region | |
| dc.title | Slow Combusting Hymn | |
| dc.type | Creative Work |