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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Manchester Metropolitan University
This course explored what inspires poetry, how we write poems and how to tell when your poem is finished. The course considered different poetic forms such as found poetry, the cento, sonnets, free verse, ghazals, as well as things to helps writers make formal choices such as line breaks, metre, rhyme, and rhythm. Through new writing exercises and techniques, learners developed their own ‘voice’ in their poems and collaborated on each other’s work to reflect on and improve it.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Adam O'Riordan
Academic Director of Manchester Writing School
Manchester Metropolitan University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Experiment with different techniques and new exercises to help generate new work
- Develop your own ‘voice’ in your poems
- Discuss how to read poetry for new ideas
- Investigate what poets from the past and present say about how we write poetry
- Collaborate on each other’s work and reflect on how to give positive and encouraging comments
Syllabus
This course asks questions such as:
- Where do you get your ideas for new poems?
- What choices go into writing a poem?
- How do you know when a poem is finished?
It also considers different poetic forms such as found poetry, the cento, sonnets, free verse, ghazal, as well as things to help learners make formal choices such as line breaks, metre, rhyme, and rhythm. As well as developing learner’s writing skills this course aims to develop learner’s inner editor and explores how to support others in writing their work in a poetry workshop.
Issued on 4th March 2019
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