Poetry and the Imagination (9308.2)

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EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Arts And Design
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Discipline Of Creative And Cultural Practice Level 3 - Undergraduate Advanced Unit Band 1 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 1 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
This unit focuses on poetic composition. The first half of the lectures will be largely conceptual, drawing extensively on audio and visual materials from both poetry and the other performative arts. What, we shall ask, is a poetic act? The second half of the lectures will attend to the music of poetry. Both halves are intended to provide students with the tools to advance their own compositional practice. Students will be given a weekly list of contemporary and twentieth century poems drawn from across the English-speaking world, which they are expected to immerse themselves in prior to the tutorials. Tutorials will provide a space in which students can work upon and present their own compositions. They will also serve as a recital space; every student will be expected to memorise one of the set poems and to recite it to the group.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this subject students will be able to:
1. read poetry with enjoyment;
2. judge critically the value of the poems they come to read in the future;
3. aware of the radical gulf between poetry and prose and will have some theories as to its nature;
4. produce at least one poem that they are happy to show to others; and
5. recite off-by-heart one of the last century's most celebrated poems.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development


Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

Restrictions: This unit is not open to students who have passed 6881 Poetry and the Imagination.

Equivalent units

6881 Poetry and the Imagination

Assumed knowledge

None.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
Not available

Required texts

Required:

Weekly Poetry Selections.

  (NB: these are all available as pdfs or links on our canvas page.)

 

Recommended:

Seven Centuries of Poetry in English, 5th edn, ed. John Leonard (London: Oxford University Press, 2003). (This text is unfortunately out of print. The Co-op Bookroom will, however, have some copies, and It is widely available second-hand.)

Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave (Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2016).

Participation requirements

This unit is flexible, in the sense that it is possible to pass it without attending face-to-face classes. Students should however realise that though lectures can be audited online with little loss of content or experience, tutes cannot be, and much of the learning in the unit occurs within them. Furthermore, one of the assessment items requires attendance at 3 of the many events occurring as part of the Poetry on the Move UC Poetry Festival, from 13-17th September. It may be possible to satisfy that task by listening to a limited range of festival offerings online, but personal attendance will vastly amplify the value of the experience. Students who are attending offline but still able to come to the UC campus occasionally are recommended to at least attend some of those festival events in person.

Required IT skills

Internet; word-processing.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.