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In this interview/essay, Emilie employs poetic inquiry to capture something of her encounter with poet and scholar Marion May Campbell. Poetic inquiry is key to resisting a homogenous way of ‘writing interview transcripts’ and of accounting for terms such as ‘feminist’, ‘failure’ and ‘success’ which have multiple interpretations. This method also permits Emilie – as poet and researcher – to be present in the exchange and in the poems. She aims to reveal something about the connections, tensions, pleasures and pressures of being part of a creative community of practice.