Teaching Block 2:

PORTFOLIO (final work) 100% which contains:
a) evidence of workshop participation (dated draft work, edits, process notes) with a 500 word contextual reflection on the editing process. (Learning Outcome 3)
b) collection of SIX poems or 2,000 words of prose (Learning Outcome 4, Learning Outcome 2 )
c) Cover letter to an editor of a little magazine/literary journal (Learning Outcome 5)

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 across both semesters. The structure of the module is a chronological survey approach to practical poetics from Postmodernism to current practice. Students will engage with texts from 1950-present. It will provide an introductory overview and practical guide to poetics for students and allow them to reflect on a variety of poetic practices. The practice-led workshops will supply in-depth practical help with students own poetic writing and explore the theoretical aspects of poetics through discussion through peer groups with particular attention to craft. Students will learn a number of writing techniques and be encouraged to use them in writing imaginatively. They will be given opportunities to practise traditional as well as more experimental forms of poetic expression.
Students will gain practical professional knowledge of the industry by reading and analysing literary magazines and contemporary poetry collections, and also though the application of industry-specific knowledge about the composition of cover letters to editors.

This module guides the student through the radical changes in writing from 1950s to the present day with a focus on composing contemporary work suitable for publication in anthologies, literary magazines and pamphlets. This knowledge facilitates the process of the application of critical analysis to the student' own creative practice. Reading and evaluation of student work in the workshop sessions develops communication and presentation skill (verbal and textual). Industry-specific employability skills are developed in the writing of a cover letter and submission suitable for a literary journal. Transferable employability skills include: presentation, communication, production of text that is highly literate, crafted, and considered, critical analysis, and precision and sensitivity in the giving of feedback to peers.

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.
Paul Hoover. (1994) Postmodern American Poetry. NY: Norton

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

2. PARTICIPATE ORALLY AND TEXTUALLY IN PEER EDITORIAL FEEDBACK AND APPLY THIS TO CREATIVE PRACTICE.
[Application; Communication]

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]