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A Coat Of Ashes: A Collection Of Poems, Incorporating A Metafictional Narrative - And - Poetry, Daoism, Physics And Systems Theory: A Poetics: A Set Of Critical Essays, Janet Ruth Jackson

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis comprises a book-length creative work accompanied by a set of essays. It explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising systems) is a secondary focus of the creative work and is used metaphorically in theorising the writing process.

The creative work, “A coat of ashes”, is chiefly concerned with the nature of being. It asks, “What is?”, “What am I?” and, most urgently, “What matters?”. To engage with these questions, it opens a space in which voices expressing scientific …

Who Thought Birds Sang, Brian Lever

Research outputs pre 2011

This is the first publication of poetry written by students at the College. A majority of the poems were produced by members of an elective group who at times wrote on similar topics. Some of the poems in this category have overtones of the 'set piece', although the approaches employed are quite different. Fortunately, this reservation applies to very few of the poems selected for inclusion by the group...