Abstract

NDLOVU, Malika Lueen. Dancing with Mountains. Educ. as change [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.1, pp.1-20. ISSN 1947-9417.  http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/7937.

Poetry informed by indigenous knowledge systems, whether written, spoken or heard, offers ideal pathways for healing and transformation. Being "medicine" in the broadest non-clinical sense, it is deeply restorative as activism, as caregiving practice and as balm in the face of relentless assaults on our bodies and beings. This I exemplify in my own work alongside a range of South African poets and poetry educators, authors, healers and (arts and/or education) activists with the hope of inspiring further research and documentation of such work.

Keywords : poetry as healing/medicine; applied poetry; decolonial poetry education.

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