Call for Submissions
Tentative Book Title:
Poetic Inquiry III: Enchantments of Place
Poetic Inquiry III: Enchantments of Place
Dear Colleagues,
In honour of our inspiring 5th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry recently held in the UBC Botanical Garden, the organizers invite you to submit articles, poems, or hybrid chapters/texts for one of two publications. Continuing in the tradition of following up on Symposia with publications, collections from previous symposia include three anthologies: Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences (Sense, 2009), The Art of Poetic Inquiry (Backalong, 2012), and Poetic Inquiry II: Seeing, Caring, Understanding (Sense, 2015); as well as several special journal issues. We have an agreement with Vernon Press to have the next volume on Poetic Inquiry ready for release by the end of 2016. We also plan to launch a special issue, online journal publication.
This call invites you to submit completed articles and/or poetry directly to the editors at at this website by the deadline of January 15, 2016. You will be asked to submit your name, biographical info (100 words max), and the article or poems in a doc file. Images should be 300dpi. To facilitate inclusion of many voices, we are limiting prose submissions to 3000 words maximum, including references (6 pages max). Poetry should be no more than three pages total. If submitting a hybrid chapter/text/images, please note that your submission can utilize up to a maximum of 6 pages single spaced including references. Contributors can only appear once, regardless of whether it is in the book or the journal, solo or joint submission.
Along with the celebration of poetry and poetic voices, we encourage work that theorizes or explores poetic inquiry as an approach / methodology / method for use in contemporary research practices. After eight years of symposia, poetic inquiry has increased in prominence as a legitimate means by which to collect, assimilate, analyze, and share the results of research across many disciplines. As we move forward, we hope to continue to lay the groundwork for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and the larger community to take up poetic inquiry as a way to approach knowledge mobilization.
As we lay this groundwork based on ISPI 2015, we welcome as well a celebration of the ancient connection between poetry and the natural world, and see this publication as an opportunity to broaden the ecological scope and impact of our work as poetic inquirers.
We look forward to reading your submissions, and hope that you will note the rapidly approaching deadline for submissions of completed chapters of January 15, 2016!
Very best wishes,
The ISPI 2015 Team,
Pauline Sameshima, Alexandra Fidyk, Kedrick James, and Carl Leggo
In honour of our inspiring 5th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry recently held in the UBC Botanical Garden, the organizers invite you to submit articles, poems, or hybrid chapters/texts for one of two publications. Continuing in the tradition of following up on Symposia with publications, collections from previous symposia include three anthologies: Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences (Sense, 2009), The Art of Poetic Inquiry (Backalong, 2012), and Poetic Inquiry II: Seeing, Caring, Understanding (Sense, 2015); as well as several special journal issues. We have an agreement with Vernon Press to have the next volume on Poetic Inquiry ready for release by the end of 2016. We also plan to launch a special issue, online journal publication.
This call invites you to submit completed articles and/or poetry directly to the editors at at this website by the deadline of January 15, 2016. You will be asked to submit your name, biographical info (100 words max), and the article or poems in a doc file. Images should be 300dpi. To facilitate inclusion of many voices, we are limiting prose submissions to 3000 words maximum, including references (6 pages max). Poetry should be no more than three pages total. If submitting a hybrid chapter/text/images, please note that your submission can utilize up to a maximum of 6 pages single spaced including references. Contributors can only appear once, regardless of whether it is in the book or the journal, solo or joint submission.
Along with the celebration of poetry and poetic voices, we encourage work that theorizes or explores poetic inquiry as an approach / methodology / method for use in contemporary research practices. After eight years of symposia, poetic inquiry has increased in prominence as a legitimate means by which to collect, assimilate, analyze, and share the results of research across many disciplines. As we move forward, we hope to continue to lay the groundwork for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and the larger community to take up poetic inquiry as a way to approach knowledge mobilization.
As we lay this groundwork based on ISPI 2015, we welcome as well a celebration of the ancient connection between poetry and the natural world, and see this publication as an opportunity to broaden the ecological scope and impact of our work as poetic inquirers.
We look forward to reading your submissions, and hope that you will note the rapidly approaching deadline for submissions of completed chapters of January 15, 2016!
Very best wishes,
The ISPI 2015 Team,
Pauline Sameshima, Alexandra Fidyk, Kedrick James, and Carl Leggo
In the garden, something difficult to describe recurs, something that eludes reasoning:
entrenched ideas and emotions begin to become unstuck, and consciousness loosens. Grievances are
erased as if by a magic hand, and vague ideas assume new shape. It is as if immediate, sensual contact
with the soil and plants has a soothing, softening effect on people. Their energies no longer circle around
inner problems, but are drawn outward by nature’s ever-surprising and fascinating vigor.
~Ruth Ammann, The Enchantment of Gardens, 2008