Summary
How can poetry function as a rigorous and artful form of inquiry in higher education? This article explores collective poetic inquiry as a way of knowing, researching, and responding to questions of social cohesion and in/justice. Drawing on collaborative work grounded in the ubuntu principle of connection, care, and growth with others, the authors examine how poetic inquiry is enacted and why it matters. Through a layered process of composing and interpreting pantoum poetry clusters, tanka poems, and a lantern poem, the study identifies the interconnected concepts of space, movement, entanglement, ambiguity, and flow. The article offers a poetic conceptualisation of artful knowing that demonstrates how collective poetic inquiry can deepen understanding, relationality, and ethical engagement in higher education, while inviting others to extend this work in new direction
Citation
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2025). Enacting artful knowing through collective poetic inquiry: “Space, movement, entanglement, ambiguity, and flow”. International Review of Qualitative Research.