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ESH6072

Contemporary Poetry

Level 6 (15 credits)

This module will explore a wide range of contemporary Anglophone poetry and poetics. Reading a collection each week by a contemporary poet working in the UK, Caribbean, US, or Canada, we will consider how poets reflect on the crises and challenges of their moment; how race, gender and class are thematised in poetry, and shape its reception; how poets work within the particularities of a genre, through generative constraints, or across the possibilities of a collection; and how these poets respond to historical traditions, as well as inventing new forms to carry us into the future.

Preparing for this Module and Approximate Costs

 
Why take
Contemporary Poetry
?

  • read a collection each week by a contemporary poet working in the UK, Caribbean, US, or Canada
  • explore how poets reflect on the crises and challenges of the contemporary, with focuses on migration, precarity, mourning and the city
  • produce weekly responses and a 'broadside' alongside a conventional essay
Learning Context Long Seminar
Semester One
Assessment
  1. Reading Journal (5 x 200 words), 30%
  2. Broadside (1 page), 10%
  3. Final Essay (3000 words), 60%
Mode of reassessment Standard
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