Poet-Academics and Academic-Poets: writing identities, practices and experiences within the Academy.

摘要

This paper reports on a pilot project which investigates the writing identity construction, writing\udpractices and experiences of 17 authors from varied subject disciplines in Higher Education, whose\udpublications include poetry and academic writing. We have defined the writers as poet-academics or\udacademic-poets according to their perceptions of place of comfort, default position or natural 'go-to'\udplace as a writer. We consider the writing practices and experiences of both groups: poet-academics\udwho see their primary writing as poetry (but who also write academic research and other prose forms)\udand academic-poets who view their primary writing as academic research (but who also write and\udpublish poetry). Given that these two groups have different writing priorities and write from different\udgeneric starting points, we question how such authors construct their identities as writers within the\udAcademy and consider if and how they experience these different writing selves as a separation. We\udexplore the contrasting writing challenges, pressures and pleasures apparent in these two domains,\udreflect on synergies in practice and point to potential implications for research accountability, writing,\udmentoring and professional development within institutions.