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The Best Australian Poetry 2006
Judith Beveridge
(editor),
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2006
Z1304971
2006
anthology
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
'In making her selection of the best 40 poems from Australia’s literary journals, Beveridge – one of Australia’s leading poets – has searched for poems that enact ‘a serious showdown between the word and the poet’. Passionate, vigorous and filled with visitations and mysterious narratives, The Best Australian Poetry 2006 is the liveliest gathering of Australian poetry. ' (Publication summary)
Degrees
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
Porter, Peter (ed), The Best Australian Poetry 2005. 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:
2006
Current Campus:
St Lucia
Levels:
Undergraduate
