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Spring 2021 - Writing Poetry: The Next Steps
Module 0
Housekeeping
Setting up your Gravatar
Technical queries
Code of Conduct
Granta Magazine
About the Course
Enjoy the Course
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Module One - Making Strange
Defamiliarisation
Synaesthesia
Surrealist Techniques
Exercises in Surrealism
The Martian School
Exercise 3
Ordinary Things
Exercise 4
Assignment One
Module One Chatroom
Module Two - Narrative
Narrative = Story
Chronology
An Exercise in Chronology
Tense
Exercise: A Flashback Poem
The Story in the Standing-Still
Exercise: Linked Meditations
Assignment Two
Module Two Chatroom
Module Three - First Person, Third Person
More or Less Personal
Confessional Poetry
Exercise: Swapping Perspectives
When the I is Not Strictly Me
Exercise: Exerting Will
A Little Confession in the First Person
Exercise: Out-of-body
Assignment Three
Module Three Chatroom
Module Four - Autobiography, Facts and Metaphorical Truth
Based on Fact
Exercise: Imaginative Metaphors
Jigsaw Puzzle Memory
Exercise: Childhood Memory
Modern Fabulists
Exercise: Fictionalise Your Life
Assignment Four
Module Four Chatroom
Module Five - Finding Your Voice
What is Poetic Voice?
How Do You Mean
Exercise: Unusual Words
How Do You Say
Exercise: A Note of Apology
Where Do You Come From?
Exercise: Heritage
Where You’re Coming From
Exercise: Lists
Assignment Five
Module Five Chatroom
Module Six – The Sonnet
What is a Sonnet?
A Brief History of the Sonnet
The Line: Iambic Pentameter
Exercise: Iambic
Rhyme
Exercise: A Sonnet From The Inside
The Turn
The Golden Section and The Mathematics of the Sonnet
More Sonnets
More Sonnets pt2
More Sonnets pt3
Assignment Six
Module Six Chatroom
Module Seven - Using Myth and Fairytale
Myths and Folktales
‘Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry’
Archetypes
Archetypal Stories
Two Exercises on Creation
Fairytale
Waiting for Bluebeard
Exercise: Life as a Fairytale
Assignment Seven
Module Seven Chatroom
Module Eight – The Prose Poem
A Contradiction in Terms
The Prose in the Poem
The Poetry in the Prose
Exercise: Resisting Line Breaks
A Fly in a Greenhouse
Exercise: Fly in a Greenhouse
Strange Encounters
Exercise: Strange Encounters
In Conclusion
Assignment Eight
Module Eight Chatroom
Module Nine - Experimental Poetry
Experimental Literature
Art and Science
Exercise: The Present Tense
The Beats – Poetry, Music, Performance
Exercise: Rhythmic Writing
Oulipo
Exercise: Oulipan Constraints
Language and Meaning - Language Poetry
Exercise: A Test of Poetry
Exercise: Homophonic Translation
Poetry and the Visual
Apollinaire’s Calligrams
Concrete Poetry
Dadaism and the Cut-Up
Chaos, Order and the Cut-Up
Exercise: Cut Up
Finding a Voice - Language and Cultural Identity
Assignment Nine
Module Nine Chatroom
Module Ten – Ekphrasis
Plato's Forms and the Beginning of Ekphrasis
The Development of Ekphrasis
Writing Breugel
Exercise: Pieter Breugel
Advice-to–a-Painter Poems
Exercise: Instructions to the Artist
Exercise: Framing Reflective Surface
Speaking for Myself and Others
Exercise: Entering a Painting
Conclusion
Assignment Ten
Module Ten Chatroom
Module Eleven - The Sequence
The Long Poem
It’s a Long Story
13 Ways of Looking
Exercise: After Stevens
More Numbers
Exercise: A 6 Poem
Vasko Popa’s Games
Exercise: A Parallel Reality
A Sort of Conclusion
Assignment Eleven
Module Eleven Chatroom
Module Twelve - Editing
Art is Long, Life is Short
Exercise: Discarded Poems
Submitting to Magazines
What to Submit
Assignment Twelve
Module Twelve Chatroom
Thank You and Next Steps
What Next?
New Lecture
‘Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry’
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