Texts

Rules for the Dance!$!Oliver, Mary!$! !$!Mariner Books!$!
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with It!$!Edward Hirsch!$! !$!Doubletake Books!$!
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2008 David Brooks (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1537239 2008 anthology poetry (taught in 3 units)

'His selection of 40 poems from Australia's print and online journals captures a sense of poetry as passion, as lived experience, and momentary distillations into action.' (Source: Publisher's website)

Description

Creative Writing: Poetics offers you the opportunity to cultivate your understanding and appreciation of poetry; to become acquainted with a range of exciting contemporary poets; and to learn about the publishing industry. It also offers you the opportunity to develop your poetry writing skills through inspiring workshop exercises, readings and discussions led by expert poets, editors and scholars.

Creative Writing: Poetics offers you the opportunity to cultivate your understanding and appreciation of poetry; to become acquainted with a range of exciting contemporary poets; and to learn about the publishing industry. It also offers you the opportunity to develop your poetry writing skills through inspiring workshop exercises, readings and discussions led by expert poets, editors and scholars.

Creative Writing: Poetics offers you the opportunity to cultivate your understanding and appreciation of poetry; to become acquainted with a range of exciting contemporary poets; and to learn about the publishing industry. It also offers you the opportunity to develop your poetry writing skills through inspiring workshop exercises, readings and discussions led by expert poets, editors and scholars.

This course is ideal for anyone who is interested in language and how words can be used in innovative, precise, intense and musical ways: poets, prose and non-fiction writers, lyricists and poetry scholars. Having said that, it's also good for novices.

Please note: this is a popular course, and every year it gets many times over the minimum enrolment number required for courses to run.

Assessment

Attendance and participation

15%

Exercise

20%

Essay

25%

Poem

40%

Supplementary Texts

Beveridge, Juidth(ed), The Best Australian Poetry 2006. St Lucia, UQP: 2005.

Brogan, TVF, ed. The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

Pretty, Ron. Creating Poetry. Caulfield, Edward Arnold: 1994.

The Explicator. Columbia, S.C. : U of South Carolina.

Other Details

Current Campus: St Lucia
Levels: Undergraduate
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