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by Lorraine Marwood
Course module outline
Unit 1: Ways to get into writing
Ways to begin, notebooks, warm up techniques, free writing.
Unit 2: Next step
Developing free writing into a poem, keeping a reading journal, a second way into writing.
Unit 3: Poems are for three dimensional reading
Using the senses, calling on memory, creating a list poem.
Unit 4: The grist of poetry: Metaphor
Show, don't tell, comparisons and clichés with a twist and why is a table like a jungle...?
Unit 5: You have natural rhythms all around you
Nursery rhymes, conversations, shopping centres and repetition - poetry is everywhere.
Unit 6: Found poems
Look, here comes the junk mail - and inspiration - again! Newspapers, magazines and advertising all supply material for poetry.
Unit 7: Using titles/first lines/ stanzas/conclusions
What types of stanzas? Samples and experiments, titles as part of the poem, first lines and the powerful conclusions.
Unit 8: Editing/rewriting and markets
Reading aloud, internal questions and breathing space for editing. Plus ways to move on to publication.
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