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The articles in this special issue do not involve translation in the conventional sense of re-creating a text from one language for readers who come to it via another. All of them, however, involve acts of collaborative poetic inquiry across literal and metaphoric distances of culture, location, language, lived experience, and more. Poetic inquiry describes the multiple and diverse range of research methodologies that in some way engage ‘the power of poetry to invite us as writers and readers into a very different, direct, and distinct way of being in and understanding the world and ourselves within it’ (Prendergast 2015: 683). In line with broader arguments such as that of Jen Webb for words as ‘good for thinking’ – or in other words generating knowledges, including but exceeding research knowledges (2010) – poetic inquiry valuably enables modes of thought and ways of knowing that differ from and complement those typically accessible through prose and other more commonly-practised modes of research writing. By Monica Prendergast’s account, this is particularly pertinent for research projects focused on ‘equity, human rights, and justice worldwide’, for ‘poetic inquiry invites us to engage as active witnesses within our research sites, as witnesses standing beside participants in their search for justice, recognition, healing, a better life’ (2015: 683).

The articles in this special issue do not involve translation in the conventional sense of re-creating a text from one language for readers who come to it via another. All of them, however, involve acts of collaborative poetic inquiry across literal and metaphoric distances of culture, location, language, lived experience, and more. Poetic inquiry describes the multiple and diverse range of research methodologies that in some way engage ‘the power of poetry to invite us as writers and readers into a very different, direct, and distinct way of being in and understanding the world and ourselves within it’ (Prendergast 2015: 683). In line with broader arguments such as that of Jen Webb for words as ‘good for thinking’ – or in other words generating knowledges, including but exceeding research knowledges (2010) – poetic inquiry valuably enables modes of thought and ways of knowing that differ from and complement those typically accessible through prose and other more commonly-practised modes of research writing. By Monica Prendergast’s account, this is particularly pertinent for research projects focused on ‘equity, human rights, and justice worldwide’, for ‘poetic inquiry invites us to engage as active witnesses within our research sites, as witnesses standing beside participants in their search for justice, recognition, healing, a better life’ (2015: 683).

Special issues: editorial
Introduction
Jaydeep SarangiAmelia Walker
The articles in this special issue involve acts of collaborative poetic inquiry across literal and metaphoric distances of culture, location, language, lived experience, and more.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Letters from Adelaide and Prayagraj
Arnis SilviaSusheel Kumar Sharma
The collaborative work consisting of corresponding poems between an Adelaide-based poet Arnis Silvia and a Prayagraj-based poet Susheel Sharma deals with anthropological phenomena like identity, ecological awareness and social justice.
Drawing on feminist and ecofeminist theories in connection with Félix Guatari’s work on the ‘three ecologies’, the article probes interconnections between environmental and social issues in Australia and India.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Anticipation, encounter, engagement
Dominique Hecq
This paper traces in three movements the experience of an imaginary and symbolic encounter with poet Bashabi Fraser: anticipation, encounter, engagement.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Transnational encounters
Bashabi Fraser
This paper reflects on the transnational journeys poets make as they cross and re-cross nation-state boundaries.