Starting in a few hours, at 12:30 UK time. We'll be using the hashtag #poetryandresearch

The #poetryandresearch symposium is underway now. In our first keynote, @AmitChaudhuri is reflecting on rigour, narrative, creativity, and the fetishisation of research.

'The writing is not about life, it is a form of living' @AmitChaudhuri reads from Friend of My Youth #poetryandresearch

And we are back, with @imlcc now speaking on 'the soul in paraphrase' sources of poetic language.

Chaired by @DrKKennedy

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Carmen Bugan @imlcc, a provocative question for us all: can poems be fact checked?

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We're back for Day 2 of #poetryandresearch.

@AliceInAcademia has brought qualitative research to highlight yesterday's ideas and themes through our most-used words

This morning's presentations pose the question: Can/should the impact of poetry be assessed within institutional, evidence-based frameworks? Marking of poems in school, REF, clinical evidence...

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