by GabrielAdmin | Aug 6, 2019 | Title
By Jos Smith of UEA. In Speculative Nature Writing, you’ll find a creative-critical exercise designed by Jos, exploring how historical and personal attitudes to nature are registered in the forms and subgenres of nature writing. In The Poetics of Place, you’ll find an overview of the first half of Jos’s MA module of the same name, giving a sense of how a course on place writing might be structured to draw on both creative and critical ideas.
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 6, 2019 | Place Writing
The module ‘Poetics of Place’, which Jos Smith teaches at UEA, explores innovative and experimental forms of place writing, from the critical and theoretical to the literary and artistic. It takes in such subjects as psychogeography, ecocriticism, critical heritage... 
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 6, 2019 | Place Writing
The following creative-critical exercise is intended to explore the way in which distinctive historical and personal attitudes to nature are registered in the forms and subgenres of nature writing. What freight of value-judgements accompanies the decision to adopt a... 
by GabrielAdmin | Jul 3, 2019 | New, Teaching
Introduction This week looks at Anglo-Saxon poetry, and the ways in which the earliest English poetry has come back to influence more recent poets such as Hopkins, Hardy, Auden, and Hughes, following its reintroduction to school syllabuses in the late Victorian... 
by GabrielAdmin | Jul 3, 2019 | New, Teaching
Introduction This week looks at the development of Irish poetry, finding in its particular traditions a number of poetic practices and ways of working which modern students can adapt to their own poetry-writing. It begins with another insight into how the practice of... 
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