Creative Writing: Poetics

Institution: 
University of Queensland
Coordinator: 
Lea, Dr Bronwyn
Code: 
WRIT2100
Year: 
2008
Levels: 
Undergraduate

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.

Texts: 
Tranter, John [ed.] The Best Australian Poetry 2007 2007 Poetry
Non-Austlit Texts: 

Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. San Diego: Harcout, 1994

Organisational Body: 
School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH)
Degrees: 
Bachelor of Arts
Assessment: 

Portfolio - Exercise

20%

Attendance and participation

15%

Portfolio - Poem

40%

Essay

25%

Additional Information
Campus: 
St Lucia
Offering: 
Semester 2
Offered History: 
2007, 2006
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.

Categories:
Unit Contexts: Creative Writing