Degrees

Graduate Diploma in Writing
Master of Arts in Creative Writing

Description

In this subject students write extensively and read widely in a variety of genres of contemporary and modern poetry. The subject is designed for students who, interested in writing, have a sustained interest in poetry or who, while not being poets themselves, wish to develop a working knowledge of recent and contemporary practices in poetry. The approach stresses the student's own creative practice and the exploration of genre and technique in the composition of poetry. The unit also introduces the work of a number of contemporary Australian and international poets as part of a field of creative and professional contexts in which poetry is written today. The unit is a workshop designed to encourage participants to enhance their skills as poets and also to develop a critical ability in editing and revising their own work and that of other writers in the class. At the same time, broad issues to do with the work of the contemporary poet, whether to do with specific aspects of creative practice, publishing, experimentation, or the presence of poetry in performance oriented or other non-literary formats, will feature in the workshop.

Subject objectives/outcomes

In this subject, students will:

* produce a folio of poems

* acquire skills to reflect critically on their writing

* acquire skills to revise and re-draft work in progress

* further their knowledge of contemporary and modern English language poetry and a range of poetries in translation

* study and practise formal and technical elements of poetry making

* reflect and engage actively with the creative and imaginative process in its traditional and contemporary settings.

Assessment

Assessment item 1: to present no fewer than five poems (written or significantly re-worked within the time-span of the class) at the end of the first part of the semester

Objective(s):a, b, c, e, f

Weighting:30%

Task:No fewer than 5 new poems written within the time-span of the class

Assessment criteria:

Technical accomplishment

Inventive subject matter

Assessment item 2: To present a short folio (approximately between 8 to 10 poems) at the end of the semester

Objective(s):a, b, c, e, f

Weighting:45%

Task:To present a short folio (810 poems) at the end of the year. Students are encouraged to think carefully about the format and presentation of their work - literary, visual, performative or electronic-based. The folio must be accompanied by a reflective statement which comments on significant aspects of the work, whether in terms of creative process, technical issues or thematic or other literary issues.

Assessment criteria:

Technical accomplishment

Inventive subject matter

Insight into creative process

Assessment item 3: Brief presentation

Objective(s):b, d, f

Weighting:25%

Length:Approx 1500 words

Task:To introduce a poem or poems, selected from the class reader, in a brief presentation. To introduce a poem or poems, selected from recent reading outside the class reader and published within the last ten years, in a brief presentation to the class. This presentation must be written up as a reflective commentary on the chosen work or a significant aspect of it.

Assessment criteria:

Critical and readerly insight

Inventive subject matter

Other Details

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http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/57133.html

ed. Judith Beveridge, The Best Australian Poetry 2006, St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press 2006

eds., Brennan, Michael and Minter, Minter, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, Sydney: Paper Bark Press, 2000

ed., Cook, Jon, Poetry in Theory: An anthology 1900-2000, Malden, MA: Blackwells Publishers 2004

eds. Cosman, Carol Keefe, Joan and Weaver, Kathleen, The Penguin Book of Women Poets, New York: Viking Press 1986

ed., Ellman, Richard and O'Clair, Robert and Ramazani, John, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, third edition, New York: W.W.Norton and Co, 2003

Gray, Robert, Afterimages, Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney 2002.

Selected Poems, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1990

eds. Mead, Phillip and Tranter, John, The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1994 and later editions

ed., Kostelanetz, Richard, Text-Sound Texts, New York, William Morrow 1980

ed., Leonard, John, New Music: an Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry,

Wollongong: Five Islands Press 2001

eds., Moramarco, F and Boston B.H. and Harrison, Martin and others, Poetry International: the Post-Colonial English Language Diaspora, San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 2003

ed., Murray, Les, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986 and later editions

ed. Dorothy Porter, The Best Australian Poems 2006, Melbourne: Black Inc 2006

eds., Preminger, Alex and Brogan T.V.F., co-editors ; Warnke Frank J., Hardison O.B. , Jr., and Miner, Earl associate editors. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.

eds., Rasula, Jed and McAffery, Steve, Imagining Language: An anthology, Boston: MIT Press 1998

eds., Rothenberg, Jerome and Joris, Pierre, Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry (From Postwar to Millennium , Vols 1 and 2), Berkeley: University of California Press 1995 and 1998

ed., Rothenberg, Jerome, Technicians of the Sacred, A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia and Oceania, New York: Doubleday1968 and later editions

Websites (Australian)

Poetry International

http://australia.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15


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