ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how creative practice might be used to contemplate geographical questions of intimacy, in contributing to the intimate turn in geography. It considers whether creative practice might be a means of 'writing ourselves differently' in this move towards intimacy. The chapter utilizes several creative bricolages, which both consist of intimate poetry and photography. Initial thought suggests that poetry lends itself particularly well to intimate expression, for through its compressed form it can convey complex emotions and worlds in a few words. Poetry is also a means to express everyday intimacies, as well as extraordinary ones, through imaginative projections. The chapter provides two strategies to analyse intimate creativity: corporeal extrapolation (scaling up from the intimacy) and imaginative transgression (utilizing creative practice to generate new geographical insights). It argues that richly evocative creative expression can fruitfully add a further dimension to the diverse range of intimate writing practices used by geographers.
