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Poems at Work: Grouping of Poems in Diverse Publications

This portfolio contains a group of 45 poems written over a period of six years, published individually by international journals and publishers.

Each poem in this portfolio was written to answer its own specific research question, exemplified by the abstracts required and published in the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAA). As a group, the poems attempt to establish a style which draws on the author’s previous writing experience as a journalist and film maker by marrying the clarity, concision, precision and accessibility of journalistic writing with the vivid visual, aural and narrative qualities of film, and the distillation, musicality and imagery of poetry. The poems seek to establish this clear journalistic/filmic artistic signature across a range of poetic forms and themes. They weave contemporary, colloquial language, active verbs, cadences of speech, clarity of expression and inventive use of imagery within free verse, formal structures and a long narrative poem, aiming to resonate with audiences more familiar with journalism and film.

These poems resume the author’s previous thematic concerns including human rights, individual freedom and employment, through an extended range of forms, including a research-based historical long narrative poem.

Most of the poems are located in a combination of the mainstream modern lyric poetry tradition from Edward Thomas and Frost, and the confessional mode of Plath and Olds. However, the development of a deliberately journalistic/filmic voice and narrative potentially offers these poems appeal to new audiences, more familiar with the conventions and grammar of mass media.

In focussing on publishers associated with particular professions and internet journals, the author aims to reach wider audiences, who might particularly respond to poems about contemporary concerns couched in the comforting rhythms of familiar metrical forms in combination with the visual imagery and direct speech of the author’s journalistic/filmic style.