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Overview
What you will learn
By the end of The Poetry Workshop offered by University of Sydney , you should be able to:
- discover what goes on inside a poem, how to make your sing and how to see and write your life more fully
- unpack some fine poems that may show you how to write your own with more grace
- write poems in new ways
- utilise the insightful feedback received on your work
- practise the techniques that poets, through the ages, employ to wake your language and your lives more fully to the facts and mysteries of existence
- employ some forms, tricks and devices to attend more closely to your language and turn out poems more likely to satisfy yourself and find your way to publication.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- poetic forms, conventions and architectures (sonnets, haiku, free verse, villanelles, sestets, quintrains, couplets, prose poems…)
- the nature of a line and the uses of enjambment
- the place of punctuation and the use of syntax
- speech music, rhythm and rhyme
- point of view, sensibility and voice
- fashion, style, convention and performance
- the necessary opacity of a poem—how to keep your secrets, but tell your reader hers; how to tell all the truth, but tell it slant
- devices for getting out of your own way and letting the poem find you and speak itself in your voice
- poetic modes and sensibilities: lyric, confessional, declamatory, ironical, casual, formal, conversational, operatic, oracular, academical, comical
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Creative Writing View 12 other Short Courses in Creative Writing in AustraliaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- CRICOS Number: 0026A
- It is suitable for beginning poets as well as writers who’ve written some poems but are looking for guidance in craft and technique.
- It is for everyone curious about poetry (and literature in general).
- The workshop is especially useful to English teachers looking for insights to guide their own teaching of poetry and creative writing.
Tuition Fee
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International
320 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 320 AUD for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
320 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 320 AUD for the full programme during 1 days.
Living costs for Sydney
1882 - 3547 AUD /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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