Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.

What poetics for creative writing -- Critical antecedents, theoretical directions -- Obituaries, contestations, proclamations: The theory question -- Craft, knowledge, theory and the designing of poetics -- Styling the subject of creative writing -- The ego in the mirror -- Between thought and the real in creative writing and philosophy -- Inking the in-between -- On experiential knowing as creative writing research mode -- Dramatic encounters: Language, craft, theory -- Food for thought: Investigating aesthetic care -- Poetics of auto-genesis: On becoming and the canon.

This book is a study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theoretical directions and creative interchanges.