ENGLISH 343

Writing Poetry


Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for ENGLISH 343.

Description

This course is for upper-level undergraduates who want to expand their poetry styles and ideas, write material-toward-poetry as well as "finished" poems and develop a reading community in which we attend to each other’s writing. The course operates like a class in drawing or dance, with exercises designed to open your writing perceptions and strengthen your writing muscles.

The last century has been good for poetries in global Englishes: innumerable approaches characterise what’s called poetry. We will discuss and write in some of those approaches. We’ll also investigate websites and books and talk about differences between composition and revision strategies. We will discuss representation, images, rhythms, diction, lines, words, syntax, sounds, rhymes, code mixing, page area, digitality, typography, punctuation, appropriation, performance, translingualism, rearrangement and more. We will discuss particular writing strengths, how to optimise the versioning of your poems and how to fit some poems and poetics together into two portfolios.

Enrolment limits for 2019

Enrolment is limited to 30 students. Selection will be based on GPA, and an evaluation of students’ transcripts to determine the relevance of previous courses undertaken as background to ENGLISH 343.

If an application is made before Christmas 2018, the student will be notified by the end of January 2019. Applications after this date will receive a notification by the end of May 2019.

Availability 2019

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Michele Leggott

Assessment

Coursework only

Points

ENGLISH 343: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II in English, Drama, and/or Writing Studies and approval by Programme Coordinator

Restrictions

ENGLISH 328