Lecturer a multi-published poet
An Avondale lecturer has found a peer-reviewed publisher for her poetic take on academic life.
Lyn Daff’s poetry regularly appears in two accounting journals. Credit: Aaron Bellette.
Lyn Daff has now had six of her poems published in the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Two of the poems are inspired by Lyn’s PhD. The most recent, “The ethics application,” published in the March 2012 issue of the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, likens preparing an ethics application to the biblical character of David facing the giant Goliath. The other poem, “The research proposal” (April 2011), also published by the journal, reflects on the nonlinear process of preparing a proposal.
“The thing I like about this type of poetry is you can raise issues in a humorous way, and that gets people’s attention,” says Lyn.
Lyn, a senior lecturer in accounting in the Faculty of Business at Avondale College of Higher Education, began writing academic-themed poetry only in 2010. But her broader interest in it began at an early age—she remembers visiting her grandmother’s brother and sister, who enjoyed reciting poetry.
She can thank her father for the gift. “Dad writes poetry for birthdays and weddings, and I enjoy doing that, too,” says Lyn. A case in point: the event at which Lyn first shared one of her poems in public? “My wedding.”