WRITING
Poetry for Beginners: From Dabbling to Diving
TERM 3: FOCUS ON WN329
Mondays 
Mark Granier
Patrick Kavanagh once wrote: ‘I dabbled in verse and it became my life.’ Have you ever dabbled and wanted to take it farther? Or read a poem and thought ‘That’s amazing! How is it done or could I do it?’ Ever wondered why rhyme sometimes works (and often doesn’t), or what makes poetry different from prose? Or why line-breaks are important? Though designed for beginners, this course is also suitable for those who have written some poetry and are now looking for direction and feedback from others at a similar stage. Apart from the basics (learning how to break into the blank page with triggering exercises etc.), sessions will involve discussion of a number of poems by established poets whose methods and techniques will be examined. Rather than critiquing students’ earlier work, the emphasis will be on producing something new and surprising, having an adventure with language.
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6 Mondays |
April 15, 22, 29, May 13, 20, 27 (No Class May 6) |
7.30pm - 9.30pm |
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FEE €115 |
Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or ring (01) 716-7123 for Laser/credit card payment |
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Tutor Details:
Mark Granierwas born in London in 1957. He completed an MA in Poetry/Creative Writing with Lancaster University and has been teaching creative writing for UCD’s Adult Education Department for several years. He has published two collections with Salmon Poetry, Airborne (2001) and The Sky Road (2007) and his third collection, Fade Street, was published by Salt in 2010. His awards include the 1997 New Writer Prize, two Arts Council Bursaries (2002 and 2008), First Prize in the 2002 Féile Filíochta, The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004 and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2011.
Provisional list of key topics to be covered:
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Rhyme
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Metaphor
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Imagery
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Riddles
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Rhythm
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Prose Poetry
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Meter
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Blank Verse
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Sonnets
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Haiku
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Parellism
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Parallelism (and more)
Who is the course for?
Serious Beginners or writers who want to try something different
