Owen Bullock
Biographic Data
| ID | 657775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Bullock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullock |
| SIGNATURE | BULLOCK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2520-3766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poetry and well-being
The value of creative writing as an adjunct to clinical treatment is well-known. Creative writing has been used successfully in a wide range of healthcare and rehabilitation settings, with people suffering from aphasia, dementia, cancer, heart attacks, depression, mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders, and dealing with pain. Poetry, in particular, has been identified as a powerful reflective tool. This project aimed…
The Poetic Vocation
This hybrid critical/creative essay discusses the vocation of being a poet and the attendant problems of earning a living. It describes the lure and attraction of writing poetry, employment history, barriers to the academic world and an eventual, fruitful encounter with it, as well as ideas associated with creativity and play. The original poems included, largely in the prose poetry form, work in counterpoint with discussion of key issues surroun…
Reading and Responding to Poetry
Three poet-researchers conduct three different readings of Tishani Doshi’s poem A Fable for the 21st Century. We ask how as creative practitioners and critics we can negotiate the desire for mastery of a text, and the dangers a semiotic reading presents, allowing for difference, indecision, and complexity. We present our initial readings of the poem and summarize our discussions of them grounded in the transactional reading theory of Louise Rosen…
Whiteout
This article shares an experimental poem created by three poet-researchers using an online word processor to collaborate within a single document. We attempt to blur the line between creative and academic writing, focusing on the possibilities for writing as a method of inquiry and the opportunities for different perceptions of being that it suggests. Our project unfolds as we also produce a brief diffractive reading that does not mirror or decon…
Whiteout
This article shares an experimental poem created by three poet-researchers using an online word processor to collaborate within a single document. We attempt to blur the line between creative and academic writing, focusing on the possibilities for writing as a method of inquiry and the opportunities for different perceptions of being that it suggests. Our project unfolds as we also produce a brief diffractive reading that does not mirror or decon…
Whiteout
This article shares an experimental poem created by three poet-researchers using an online word processor to collaborate within a single document. We attempt to blur the line between creative and academic writing, focusing on the possibilities for writing as a method of inquiry and the opportunities for different perceptions of being that it suggests. Our project unfolds as we also produce a brief diffractive reading that does not mirror or decon…
Reading and Responding to Poetry
Three poet-researchers conduct three different readings of Tishani Doshi’s poem A Fable for the 21st Century. We ask how as creative practitioners and critics we can negotiate the desire for mastery of a text, and the dangers a semiotic reading presents, allowing for difference, indecision, and complexity. We present our initial readings of the poem and summarize our discussions of them grounded in the transactional reading theory of Louise Rosen…
The Poetic Vocation
This hybrid critical/creative essay discusses the vocation of being a poet and the attendant problems of earning a living. It describes the lure and attraction of writing poetry, employment history, barriers to the academic world and an eventual, fruitful encounter with it, as well as ideas associated with creativity and play. The original poems included, largely in the prose poetry form, work in counterpoint with discussion of key issues surroun…
Poetry and well-being
The value of creative writing as an adjunct to clinical treatment is well-known. Creative writing has been used successfully in a wide range of healthcare and rehabilitation settings, with people suffering from aphasia, dementia, cancer, heart attacks, depression, mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders, and dealing with pain. Poetry, in particular, has been identified as a powerful reflective tool. This project aimed…
Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)