KWB212 Poetry and Poetics
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| Unit code: | KWB212 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KWB212 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Sarah Holland-Batt | sarah.hollandbatt@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides important creative and critical skills in writing poetry and cultivating an understanding of how to interpret and use poetic techniques. It explores a spectrum of contemporary and traditional forms of poetry, and is designed for those who are interested in poetics and the use of words in precise, innovative, concentrated and musical ways. It equips students with knowledge of the techniques, poetic forms and modes, and the opportunity to apply this vocabulary in analysing and reading a wide range of contemporary poetry. The unit provides key creative and critical skills in writing poetry, while offering you the chance to practice in a variety of poetic forms and modes, reflectively writing about your own poetry and analytically writing about the stylistics of another person’s work. The unit occurs at the mid-point of the creative writing major, building on KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique, and preparing you for the advanced work of third year.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Write and edit a portfolio of poetry to a professional standard.
- Analyse and discuss the stylistic features of a range of poetic forms.
- Apply critically reflective techniques, independently and collaboratively, to your personal practice in poetry writing.
Content
The unit assists an understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary poets’ work, equips students to apply a knowledge of poetics and style in writing and editing their own poetry, and instils a technical vocabulary allowing students to provide constructive criticism of other writers’ work.
Learning Approaches
A combination of lectures and tutorials will support students’ achievement of learning outcomes through modelling pedagogy, small group work, peer critique and formative as well as summative assessment.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive formative feedback through in-class writing exercises and oral peer-critiques, and summative feedback through written and oral feedback on creative practice and critical/reflective writing.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment tasks will include: creative practice; self-reflective analysis; and critical analysis of other writers’ work.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Explication Essay
Write an explication essay that analyses the stylistic features of a poem selected from a provided list.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
Compile a creative portfolio of formal and free verse comprising:
1. 10 finished poems
2. A 'writer's statement' that introduces your poems
3. One early draft of each poem and/or other evidence of integration of feedback
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
A Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994).
The Making of a Poem, eds. Mark Strand and Eavan Boland (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001).
Recommended text(s)
Australian Poetry since 1788 eds. Gray, R & Lehmann, G (Sydney: University of NSW Press, 2011).
The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry ed. John Kinsella (Melbourne: Penguin, 2009).
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO3
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO1 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3