Module Descriptors
POETRY FOR READERS AND WRITERS
ENGL60290
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
30 credits
Contact
Leader: Barry Taylor
Email: B.P.Taylor@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 22
Independent Study Hours: 278
Total Learning Hours: 300
Assessment
- JOURNAL weighted at 80%
- CRITICAL ANALYSIS weighted at 20%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Coursework Journal [Learning Outcomes 2,3,4,6]
Critical Analysis [Learning Outcomes 1,5]
Critical Analysis [Learning Outcomes 1,5]
Module Indicative Content
This module aims to develop students' creative responses to twentieth century and contemporary poetry, whether as writers or readers. It will explore in detail a wide range of British and American poetry, focussing on how poems and poetic language work - the craft of image, rhythm, structure, line and voice. The module will be assessed by a personal journal tracing the student's creative interaction with poems on and off the reading list, and including related examples of his/her own poetry and/or his/her close readings of individual poems.
Module Resources
OHP
Library
VCR
Internet
Library
VCR
Internet
Module Texts
Peter Sansom Writing Poems (Bloodaxe, 1993)
Robin Behn The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (HarperResource, 1992)
Julia Bell (ed.) The Creative Writing Coursebook (Pan, 2001)
Robin Behn The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (HarperResource, 1992)
Julia Bell (ed.) The Creative Writing Coursebook (Pan, 2001)
Module Learning Strategies
Contact hours will be taken up with Workshops, and small-group tutorials to support coursework Journal development.