The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements

I’m an avid reader of Acknowledgments sections. I read them all, back to back, in every work I pick up. No exceptions. This is also one of the sections I put the most care into when writing my own things.

So this is one of the most fascinating things I’ve come across recently: The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements, written by Tabitha Carvan and produced and published by the ANU College of Science and Medicine.

It is no surprise that I discovered it through the Bluesky page of a good colleague and friend who is also a devoted reader of Acknowledgments and a poet.