Creative Writing: Poetics (WRIT2100)
School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH) - University of Queensland
Semester 2 / 2008

Texts

A Poetry Handbook!$!Oliver, Mary!$! San Diego!$!Harcout!$!1994
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2007 John Tranter (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1423275 2007 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units)

'The Best Australian Poetry 2007 celebrates the vibrancy and force of poetry in Australia now. Guest Editor John Tranter has selected 40 of the best poems of the preceding year. With revealing comments from the poets, The Best Australian Poetry 2007 is an indispensable addition to a series. Now in its fifth year, it is widely recognised as the most dependable guide to what is new and remarkable in Australian poetry.'  (Publication summary)

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts

Description

Creative Writing: Poetics offers you the opportunity to develop your poetry writing skills through inspiring workshop exercises, readings and discussions led by expert poets, editors and scholars. It also 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.

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 writers, lyricists and poetry scholars.

Assessment

Portfolio - Exercise

20%

Attendance and participation

15%

Portfolio - Poem

40%

Essay

25%

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

Offered in: 2007, 2006
Current Campus: St Lucia
Levels: Undergraduate
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