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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)
Degrees
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
