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Introducing Poetic Inquiry

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This section outlines the aims and summarises the chapters that follow and outlines what Poetic Inquiry entails. This section includes a brief literature review of what Poetic Inquiry is, how and why this is a useful methodology, what it can tell us that other methods can not and an overview of the chapters that follow.

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Owton, H. (2017). Introducing Poetic Inquiry. In: Doing Poetic Inquiry. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64577-3_1

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