Month: April 2007

Year 1: those that hung around for the last half hour of the lecture (ho-hum!): try finishing the poem you started inspired by William Carlos Williams poem about the number 5. For others… and for all… in the light of what we have learnt today about imagism and about the critical importance of the form…

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Hi First Years: here are a few thoughts about your progress in LiveJournal since the beginning of semester. Most of you have now mastered the tasks of uploading and of making your LiveJournal look visually interesting. Some of you are still to learn the “art” of uploading images into your LJ. Images can really support…

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First years: you could develop any one of those poems/ prose pieces that you started writing on Friday in class: the Ekphrastic poems…. if, for whatever reason you missed the class this week, you could write a commentary on Mirikitani’s “Breaking Tradition” the poem that we all spent some really good time on in tutorials.…

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Don’t Delay- Post your Entries to http://community.livejournal.com/poetrywcom/…. hope to see you there!!!!! MG

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Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…

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Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…

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Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…

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Hi all… Easter is almost upon us so we need to tidy up our Live Journals in ready for the first “inspection”…. hope that you have all found the experience challenging and satisfying. I must say there have been some fantastic breakthroughs in terms of what students have been doing in LiveJournal across all years.…

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