Abstract
The recent emergence of organisational ethics which centre bodies still lack proposals for specific practices. In this paper I engage with a particular problem of embodied ethics from an identity perspective. I ask how we can act ethically in ways that fully recognise both the capacity of our material bodies to affect and be affected by other bodies, and our desire to ‘name ourselves’ within a web of organisational and other relations. Drawing on Toye’s (2010; 2012) conceptualization of poethics I propose an ethical practice for reading bodies aesthetically and specifically as poems.