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Bill Boyd Bill Boyd i(A103519 works by)
Born: Established: 1956 ;
Gender: Male
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1 Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns : The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize Bill Boyd , Emma Doolan , Ruth Henderson , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 29 2021; (p. 47-72) 'Poetry provides valuable and insightful ways to explore and record social and political experiences and engagements. The plight of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia is well known. Community groups such as the Ballina Region for Refugees provide support to refugees and asylum seekers both in Australia and offshore. To help raise awareness and validate the experience of refugees and asylum seekers, the Ballina Region for Refugees runs an annual Poetry Prize. The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize theme was Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns. This article presents the winning and highly commended poems, along with poems by refugee and asylum seeker poets. Poems from both insider witnesses – refugees and asylum seekers – and outsider witnesses – poets who seek to express an empathy with the plight of refugees and asylum seekers – have contributed to this collection. From haunting statements of human dissolution that should strike fear into anyone’s heart, through glimpses of hope, the poems explore the trails of asylum seeking and the dysfunctionality of the aftermath.'  (Publication abstract)
1 Finding a Home : Harnessing Biographical Narrative in Teaching and Learning in Cultural Geography Bill Boyd , Peter Ashley , Denise Rall , Wendy Laird , David Lloyd , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 187 - 204) 'This paper describes the use of reflective biographical narrative, in postgraduate research supervision, in helping students develop their sense of place - an intellectual place - within the scholarly landscape. The example provided centres on the work of students who have found an intellectual home in cultural geography. Using planned and semi-formal conversation, a device emerging from the authors' supervisory practices, this activity draws on the emerging tradition of reflective biographical narrative, in which biographical reflection is not merely reflection on knowledge, but a practical methodological approach to working with knowledge. We conclude that our approach provided positive learning outcomes for the students, all of who were better able to frame their research, using reflective biographical narrative, within a conscious sense of scholarly place, and to adopt such reflection as a key analytical tool in their respective research projects.' (Authors abstract)
1 My Words Must Be Careful – Ngurrara i "My words must be careful I must be careful how I craft my words", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 107-109)
1 Picture This – Hong Kong August 2004 i "Picture this a bar with Abba playing and English oaks and special Heineken on special", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 105-107)
1 Byron Bay 2004 – Bad Poetry and the Great Poet i "Did I tell you that I once met a Chinese Poet?", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 104-105)
1 Vita Vitalis : Vita Verdant i "So, JD, are you satisfied?", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013;
1 Verdant Memory : Celtic Dreaming i "Celtic greenness creeps", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 103-104)
1 ...Verdant i "Verdant Indochin: French colonial legacy", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 103)
1 Vital... i "Constant", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 102-103)
1 Hanoi, May 2001 i "Dark", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 102)
1 Preface i "I write", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 101-102)
1 Vitalis Verdant Bill Boyd , 2013 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 101-104)
1 Kiss – Reconciliation, A Start i "It started with a kiss", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 101)
1 On the Border Crossing to the Land of Reconciliation i "An abstract as such: a travel guide to the land of reconciliation", Bill Boyd , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 99-100)
1 (Hardly) Anyone Listening? Writing Silent Geography Bill Boyd , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 97-113) 'In 1984, J. Douglas Porteous challenged the geography world to silence. True geographical appreciation cannot be expressed in prose; the logical conclusion is for geographers to be silent. Given that they cannot be silent, Porteous advocated nontraditional writing, such as poetry. In 1994, Paul Cloke illustrated the power of reflective narrative for a geographer grappling to understand the world. In 1998, I started writing geographic poetry. In 2012, I draw these strands together in this reflective essay, drawing on a poetic journey over a decade old now. Can I reflect a sense of place or place-making that transcends traditional geographical expression? Did Porteous truly open a geographic window otherwise closed to me? I conclude the poetry does create geographical sense and sensibility, but more as constructed possibilities than as objective realities. The poetry provides glimpses into the experiences of geographical displacement encountered by many New Australians, and thus may best be considered as metageographical expressions.' (Author's abstract)
1 Introduction to Coolabah Special Issue on Placemaking, Placemarking, Placedness … Geography and Cultural Production Bill Boyd , Ray Norman , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 11 2013; (p. 1-18) 'This special issue of the journal Coolabah comprises contributed papers that examine the relationships between place, placescape and landscape - Australian places and imaginings. Australian perspectives of place and cultural production unavoidably confront issues of identity simultaneously from antipodean and elsewhere vantage points.' (Source: Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Half Way There Bill Boyd , Alstonville : Bill Boyd , 2006 Z1364467 2006 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Bouncing Off Walls Bill Boyd , Alstonville : Bill Boyd , 2005 Z1364473 2005 selected work poetry
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