Creative Writing: Poetics (WRIT2100)
School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH) - University of Queensland
Semester 2 / 2006

Texts

y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2004 Anthony Lawrence (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 Z1145160 2004 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Selection of poems published in Australian literary journals and newspapers during 2003. Contributors' notes, pp.103-127, include authors' comments on individual poems.
y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2005 Peter Porter (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005 Z1219041 2005 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units)

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts

Description

Creative Writing: Poetics is an introductory creative writing course that offers you the opportunity to cultivate your understanding and appreciation of poetry, toget acquainted with some of Australia's best contemporary poets and to learn about the publishing industry. It also offers you the opportunity to hone 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 writers, lyricists and poetry scholars. No prior experience is necessary.

Assessment

Online Survey

1%

Workshop attendance and participation

10%

Portfolio - Essay and exercise

30%

Online - Terminology Test

9%

Poem Portfolio

50%

Supplementary Texts

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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