Teaching Block 1:

PORTFOLIO 100% which contains:
A Portfolio of six original poems that demonstrate application of knowledge of the forms and poetics covered in semester 1 of the module. (Learning Outcomes 2, 3) and a 750 word reflective personal essay on poetics. (Learning outcome 1, Learning outcome 4.)

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This module is delivered via a craft lecture, manuscript workshop, and editorial tutorials, which amount to three hours per week for twelve weeks. The structure of the module is a chronological survey approach to practical poetics from Modernism to current practice.
In semester one, this module will familiarise students with the basic elements of form and structure: traditional verse forms (e.g. sonnets, sestinas) and how they have been developed in modern poetic practice. European and Anglo-American Modernism will also be taught in semester one.

This module guides the student though beginning to write poetry by studying and practising the major courtly forms, sonnet, sestina, villanelles and crucially, how to adapt and develop these forms for modern readers and practitioners. Students will also be introduced to the key artistic and poetic foundations of Modernism: Imagism, DADA, Formalism, Objectivism and track the journey of poetry from controlled forms to free and open verse.
Key Information Set Data:
24% Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities
76% Guided Independent Learning

Library, Internet. The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook. Networked PC DVD/Video Projection.

Rothenberg and Joris. (1999) Poems for the Millennium. Volume 1. LA: University of California Press.

1. UNDERSTAND AND RETAIN KNOWLEDGE OF LITERARY TERMS, TECHNIQUES, MOVEMENTS AND PERIODS.
[Knowledge and Understanding; Learning]

2. APPLY KNOWLEDGE OF LITERARY TECHNIQUES, TERMINOLOGY TO CREATIVE PRACTICE.
[Analysis; Learning]

3. CREATE A PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINAL CREATIVE WORK THAT REFLECTS THE TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES STUDIES IN THE MODULE
[Application; Reflection]

4. DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO REFLECT CRITICALLY ON WRITTEN WORK AND REFLECT UPON CREATIVE PROCESS.
[Reflection]