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'This paper presents part of a poetic ‘call and response’ exchange between two poets who have never met. It shares the contemplative witnessing and ‘responding’ of an Australian poet to the poetic ‘calls’ of an Indian poet. Whilst the focus for the project was exploring the physical geography of place, the style of the Indian poet’s calling poems – and indeed the Australian poet’s responding poems – were entangled with ideas encompassing much more than geography. Dreams, desires, despair, loss, and hope wove around, and in ‘place’ of, geographical descriptions. The inquiry process was imperfect, and traversing time differences, language, culture, ways of understanding, and technology to share lived lives was no easy task. Yet, aesthetic methods invited socially and ethically engaged scholarship and contemplation. This paper offers glimpses of how two women poets produced poetic data to explore and witness lives and see and be moved by the other.' (Publication abstract)

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  • Epigraph: all is welcomed as instructive the resonances reverberations sound throughout the text relationship is the medium through which we catch an angle reflected something that compels us opening to another in this way helps to undercut the (illusion of) solidity of self the process is gentle more consciously care-filled (Walsh & Bai qtd. in Walsh et al 2015: 1)

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    y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Website Series Indian-Australian Exchanges through Collaborative Poetic Inquiry no. 60 October 2020 20757143 2020 periodical issue

    'Poetry, it seems to me, raises the questions of margins and marginality in obvious ways … and yet poetry is central in terms of its contribution to language and thought. (Hecq 2005)

    'Liminality indicates a border, a line, and thus some style of crisis – some turn, or act of turning, of crossing from one place or state to another (Meads 2019: 5). It is the discovery of a limit, and simultaneously, realisation that the limit is not the end. There is always some further into and through which to step. What seems a wall is a skin is an interstice is warping, stretching, porous. Like the ‘/’ in the ‘im/possible’ and ‘both/and’, such lines are zones, spaces, gaps for opening and unfolding, sites for play and experimentation, for testing, dreaming, discovering. The liminal is thus imbued with potential: hitherto-unthought thoughts become articulable, letting new knowledges and ways of knowing come to be (Meads 2019: 5-6).' (Jaydeep Sarangi and Amelia Walker, (Introduction)

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