Fieldwork Poetics and the Art of Observation

Samantha F Jones

doi:10.14430/arctic74994

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Fieldwork Poetics and the Art of Observation

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RED PHALAROPE ere is no one on the esker——rocky ridge a remnant of glaciation ——undulating across the lowlands Snow melts and drains—runnels o the crest and down the still frozen anks
The poems Studying the Freshet and Red Phalarope are based on experiences and observations from a 5-week late May to June field season in 2019 in Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut
In Studying the Freshet a list of colours describes the appearance of the river water, “blue— ow brown and yellow, /—green—— almost black.” ese lines develop a series of images that bring the reader to the creek, but the colours named and the order of the list are not arbitrary, they are an expression of process

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RED PHALAROPE ere is no one on the esker——rocky ridge a remnant of glaciation ——undulating across the lowlands Snow melts and drains—runnels o the crest and down the still frozen anks. The poems Studying the Freshet and Red Phalarope are based on experiences and observations from a 5-week late May to June field season in 2019 in Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut. Is brief essay discusses the role of science poetry as a unique method that produces a literary deliverable, while at the same time informing the way that I conduct research.

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