Module Descriptors
POETRY FOR READERS AND WRITERS
ENGL60389
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Lisa Mansell
Email: Lisa.Mansell@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Pattern of Delivery
  • Occurrence A, Stoke Campus, UG Semester 2
Sites
  • Stoke Campus
Assessment
  • JOURNAL weighted at 67%
  • CRITICAL ANALYSIS weighted at 33%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Coursework Journal [Learning Outcomes 2,3,4]
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

Module Learning Strategies
Contact hours will be taken up with Workshops, and small-group tutorials to support coursework Journal development.

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)