Arts-based research (ABR) is a methodological genre, which adapts the tenets of the creative arts to make social science research accessible, evocative and engaging. It crosses the boundaries of both art and science, but has made few inroads within psychology. This paper describes a pilot project examining how art-making shaped the trajectories of women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. Using ABR as a way of distilling the findings, we demonstrate how experiences of existential and posttraumatic growth can be understood more profoundly through found poetry. Found poems (interview excerpts reframed as poetry) offer a richer, more meaningful, and potent evocation of themes than traditional coding. Poetry permits the voice of the participant to be more clearly heard, and allows the reader to access deeper insights and understandings of the complexities of growth through adversity.