Course overview
This third-year course aims to expand students’ understanding of contemporary poetics. It offers close analysis of a broad range of work from different traditions and national contexts. This reading will inform students’ own creative practice as they work towards a chapbook-length sequence of poems for the final creative portfolio. The course offers guidance on editing one’s own work and approaching publishers.
Course learning outcomes
- Interpret, craft, and reflect critically on a broad spectrum of contemporary approaches to poetic practice belonging to different genres, traditions, and movements
- Conceptualise poetic writing projects, devise plans for their research and execution, and fulfil these to deadlines
- Analyse creative, critical, and theoretical texts related to different poetic forms, modes, and genres, informed by the global and historical contexts of their production
- Write and revise polished creative and critical works that demonstrate significant levels of clarity, insight, narrative innovation, and sophistication
- Evaluate their own and others’ writing, both in seminar-based workshops and through written feedback