Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Making of a Poetics -- 1. What Poetics for Creative Writing? -- 2. Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions -- 3. Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question -- 4. Craft, Knowledge, Theory and the Designing of Poetics -- 5. Styling the Subject of Creative Writing -- 6. The Ego in the Mirror -- 7. Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy -- 8. Inking the In-Between -- 9. On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode -- 10. Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory -- 11. Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care -- 12. Poetics of Auto-Genesis: On Becoming and the Canon -- Afterword: Poetic (A)Topos -- Bibliography -- Index