106-028 Writing Poetry

Formerly available as 106-228/328. Students who have completed 106-228 or 106-328 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. This subject is not available to students who have completed 760-205 Poetry.

Usually 25 points of first-year English, see Prerequisites, including completion of first-year creative writing prerequisites.

In this subject students have the opportunity to develop their own poetry through workshop sessions, class discussions and submission of drafts. Over the course of the semester students will work on a number of poems, in different modes and forms, specifically through taking part in the writing workshop process. Students should also develop an awareness of the way in which the material presentation of their writing is significant.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words, being a selection of the student's own writing.

A subject reader will be available.

• J Leonard, New Music: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry. Five Islands Press.