Teaching Through Imitation
In Teaching through Imitation you will find an essay by Thomas Karshan on the history, theory, and practice of imitation in relation to his Ludic Literature MA module, an account by Will Rossiter of his use of imitation in his final-year undergraduate module 'The Italian renaissance', and an essay by Tim MacGabhann on the experience of studying literature through imitation.
Place Writing
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.
Alice in Wonderland Workshop
Katherine Lockton runs poetry workshops at South Bank Poetry in London, where she has also been editor of poetry since 2011. Drawing on her extensive experience both teaching and writing poetry (with a publication history that includes work in PN Review, Magma,...
A Conversation with the Past: From Sappho to Bashõ
Materials from Tim Dooley's course at the Poetry School. There is still a remarkable split between courses and programmes designed to teach the practice of poetry and those designed to teach its history. This course attempts to do both, simultaneously.