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