Browse Hierarchy ESH5104: Creative Writing Poetry and Performance

This English with Creative Writing core module will develop your knowledge and skills with regards to reading and writing poetry and performance. You will think about poetry and performance in relation to other mediums and genres - on and off the page, across genres and mediums, spanning cultural contexts - and experiment with a variety of practices and techniques. You will produce new writing each week ¿ in class and in your own time ¿ and share work-in-progress with your fellow students. The module combines topic-based seminar teaching with in-class writing exercises, workshops, and additional activities. Topics may include: spoken word and performance poetry, playwriting and live art, the politics of poetics, conceptual and hybrid forms, art and music writing.