2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL5910M Writing Poetry

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Zaffar Kunial
Email: z.kunial@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

N/A

Module replaces

N/A

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module enables you to specialise in writing poetry and develop an advanced practice. You will write regularly and read and discuss contemporary texts and media that reveal key debates in poetics. The Poetry Workshop will serve as our ‘literary community’ through which peer and tutor feedback is given and received to encourage your development as a poet. By the end of the module, your portfolio and a critical reflection will show the particular approach to writing poetry that you will have developed. Students on the MA Creative Writing must take Writing Fiction or Writing Poetry as one of their Semester 2 modules. You are welcome to take both modules.Students opting from outside the creative writing programme will need to demonstrate creative writing skills, so should email a writing sample of three pages of poetry to both the module manager and the programme lead (j.richards3@leeds.ac.uk)

Objectives

This module enables students to specialise in writing poetry. Through regular writing, reading salient texts ‘as a writer’, and weekly discussion, students will engage with a range of formal and thematic approaches to poetry writing. They will gain an understanding of key debates in contemporary poetics. Students will a develop an advanced specialist writing, redrafting, and editing practice through the submission of poems to the Poetry Workshop for peer and tutor feedback. The module culminates in the submission of a portfolio and critical reflection that demonstrate the student’s own approach to writing poetry.

Learning outcomes
1. To identify, examine, and practice a range of advanced formal and thematic approaches to writing poetry

2. To be able to select from and apply these approaches to demonstrate one’s own approach to writing poetry

3. To be able to locate that particular approach in the context of contemporary poetry, including regarding key debates in poetics

4. To develop a specialist writing practice in poetry, which includes editing and redrafting following peer and tutor feedback

Syllabus

This workshop-based poetry module will indicatively cover:

- Close examination and discussion of a range of contemporary texts and media that demonstrate the state of contemporary poetics, including its characteristics and key debates;

- Participation in the ‘Poetry Workshop’, which involves the regular submission of writing for constructive and considered peer and tutor feedback and practical writing exercises set by the tutor; particular emphasis to be placed on the idea of the writing process.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			280.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

One unassessed informal presentation and brief extracts of work-in-progress submitted regularly for peer and tutor feedback

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	A portfolio of poetry equivalent to 2,500 words of prose (e.g., 125 lines of verse, 2500 words if prose poetry, or an agreed equivalent in pages or other methods of delivery if visual/sound/performance/intermedia poetry)	80.00
Critique	A critical reflection of 1,500 words	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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