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An English lecturer, a palliative care practitioner, and an absent poet have a confabulation

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Date
09/07/2014
Author
Jones, Chris
Macpherson, Catriona
Keywords
Cancer
Collaborative writing
Dying
Death and bereavement
Douglas Dunn
Literary archives
Palliative care
Poetry
Therapeutic writing
PN0080 Criticism
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Abstract
The possibilities for developing the poet Douglas Dunn’s archive (which includes the drafts and manuscripts for his collection Elegies, dealing with the terminal illness and death of the poet’s wife from cancer) for therapeutic benefit are explored by an English lecturer (C.J.) and a palliative care practitioner (C.M.). This has led us to explore the potential benefit of this resource for health practitioners working with those affected by cancer and other life-limiting conditions. This article offers a “written conversation” (an acknowledged oxymoron of genre) about working with the themes of death and loss: a conversation which includes Douglas Dunn, who was not actually there. We reflect on the value of this “confabulation” as methodological inquiry, and its potential influence on practice. Thus, an example of “creative writing” (the confabulation) becomes a piece of research into methodology regarding the use of “creative writing” resources (the poetry archive) in palliative health care.
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Jones , C & Macpherson , C 2014 , ' An English lecturer, a palliative care practitioner, and an absent poet have a confabulation ' , Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies , vol. 14 , no. 4 , pp. 361-368 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708614530307
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Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708614530307
ISSN
1552-356X
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright 2014, the authors. This is the accepted version of this article. The published version of record (c) SAGE Publications is available at: doi: 10.1177/1532708614530307
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  • English Research
  • St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4606

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