Poetry
Kylie J Stevenson
All living language
City of Joondalup/Peter Cowan Writers Centre
2014
Abstract
Through my postgraduate studies, I am privileged to be engaged with and studying the creativity of artists who are students at university from a range of disciplines: visual arts, performing arts and language arts. What I do is talk to these artists and we document their creative process as a diagram of a river journey, with each bend in the river representing a shift or change in their creative process. Then I use my understanding of theories about creativity to analyse their experience and I use my skills as a writer to respond creatively, writing poems about this engagement and my understanding of these artists.
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Joondalup, has been fundamental in helping me develop as a poet. Monthly workshops with a group of talented poet-students, led by some of Australia’s most esteemed poets, have really pushed my poetry skills to a new and more potent level.
I generally use my haphazard writer’s notebook to jot down a first draft of a poem that comes to me in a workshop, or at night as I am drifting off to sleep, or as I sit by the Swan River and try not to think of anything at all. Then, when there is a need for the poem to be finished for a publication or a performance, I redraft on the computer, reading the words out loud to myself until I get both the musicality of the words and the page-look of the words right.
Details
- Title
- Kylie J Stevenson
- Authors/Creators
- Kylie J Stevenson (Author)
- Publication Details
- All living language
- Publisher
- City of Joondalup/Peter Cowan Writers Centre
- Identifiers
- 991005575666207891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Poetry
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