Description
Once thought of as ‘invalid’, fanciful and self indulgent the use of poetry in qualitative research has taken some time to become both a valid method of inquiry and analysis, and an appropriate style of re-presenting research findings. As such it has become a popular creative alternative method for researchers to share transcript data. Despite this there is not widespeard use of poetic reprsentation in sport or physical education nor is there a definitive step by step process for the would be poet-researcher to follow that describes exactly ‘how to find poems in their prose’ – this paper fills these gaps. This paper shares my methodological journey from researcher to poet-researcher by sharing a detailed step-by-step process to find poems in prose. By using interview data collected at the Gay Games sporting event this process is then applied to transcript data in a live, real time worked sample. By the end a poem is constructed and left to stand alone, the final product of a process – and example of something ‘found’. It is hoped this paper is useful to others working with interview data and wanting to utilize poetics instead of traditional narrative.Period | 2018 |
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Event title | International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise 2018 |
Event type | Conference |
Conference number | 6th |
Location | Vancouver, Canada, British ColumbiaShow on map |