In this article, the author takes up the gauntlet regarding what seems like an almost impossible argument: the publication of poetry for its own sake in the elite educational research journals. The author concentrates specifically on a defence of poetry because poetry is. Poetry is and has been since humankind began to talk, but the uses of poetry, and especially exposure to it ‘in the raw’, are generally rather restricted in modernity, publication in the education literatures being no exception. In so doing, the author also attempts to illustrate a range of ways that the publication of poetry – and thus wider engagement with it – might help us to come to understand relationally the significance of the arts to education when considered from an ethic of art for art's sake.
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