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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Supporting Lives: Honouring Oft-ignored Healthcare Professionals through Poetry and Art Based on Archival Research
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'This article discusses my role as poet in a cross-arts collaboration for a multimodal exhibition honouring the legacies of undersung healthcare professionals, particularly Orderlies, Catering Staff, Linen Staff, and Cleaners. Part of a series supported by the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) Foundation’s Arts in Health program, the exhibition was based on archival research in the WCH History and Heritage Collection. The aim was to raise what Michel Foucault called ‘subjugated knowledges’ about undersung healthcare professionals of the past in order to remind people how important these workers are in current times, too. This article discusses the challenges I faced and the learning I gained regarding poetic techniques of radical openness that emphasise historic injustices’ present effects, compelling readers to question ongoing problems and imagine future change' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Social Alternatives Poetry to the Rescue: The Poetry Special Issue vol. 40 no. 3 October 2021 23781124 2021 periodical issue

    'Since its inception in 1977 Social Alternatives has had a long-running commitment to poetry. During this time the journal has published well over two thousand poems (Synott 2018: 46)1, including work by Judith Wright, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Samuel Wagan Watson and Dorothy Porter (Morgan et al. 2007: 58). Alongside such luminaries, Social Alternatives has published hundreds of relatively unknown poets, many of whom had their first poems published in the journal. Certainly, when I began writing a quarter of a century ago it was one of the places you sent to. Many of the poets featured in the journal's early years were active in various social movements from anti-conscription and nuclear disarmament to Aboriginal land rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection (Synott 2018: 45). The poetry in Social Alternatives has often been slanted towards political and social themes but the work has usually been thematically broader (Morgan et al. 2007: 58), relating more abstractly to politics.' (Aidan Coleman Publication abstract)

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