New college Jan 2012 wk2

Week 2

Learning Plans

What is Poetry?

Writing Exercises

Creative Writing

January 2012

©Michael Scott 2012

Previously ….

E is an important letter

We are looking for structure

We are looking for discipline

Lord of the Rings is a popular book

Previously


We likeWe like


What is Poetry?



‘We are making birds not bird cages’

Dean Young – American Poet


Writing Weaponry


First draft


Second draft


Connection

‘Three studies of the human head’Francis Bacon


Final poem


The Exquisite Corpse

‘We have flowed out of ourselves’

Mina Loy – Modernist Poet


It’s all about perspective



Choose a poem from one of the books,study it carefully for 10 minutesWhat does it mean to you, why?

Read the poem to your partner and discuss

Use a line or the title as a prompt for a 12 line poem of your own.

The subject can be anything and for children or adults.


Individual learning plans

1 to 1’s

(half of you this week, half next week)


Books & Links

Writing Down The Bones – Natalie GoldbergThe Art of Recklessness – Dean YoungThe Making of a Poem – Eavan BolandThe Ode Less Travelled – Stephen Fry

www.swindonwriters.wordpress.com

www.swindonpoetryopenmic.blogspot.com

http://swindonwriterscafe.blogspot.com/


Education

New college Jan 2012 wk2