Monday 26 th January 2015

Next week Workshopping - Work you’re thinking about including for the ‘creative elements’ of your coursework drafts to me: NB – If you’re still short on ideas, still bring something along to be workshopped – (if you know you want to chose some thing we haven’t covered yet, it’s your homework to research and try writing to that genre)NB – If you’re still short on ideas, still bring something along to be workshopped – (if you know you want to chose some thing we haven’t covered yet, it’s your homework to research and try writing to that genre)

Hand-outs Reading list Links (have a look at what’s on google books!) – here’s a sample: The Cambridge Introduction to Creative WritingThe Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley 3y9RVAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=creative+writing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6PjEVMXkFOvW7Qa0hIDoCw&redir_esc=y#v=o nepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false 3y9RVAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=creative+writing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6PjEVMXkFOvW7Qa0hIDoCw&redir_esc=y#v=o nepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false Creative Writing for DummiesCreative Writing for Dummies, by Maggie Hammand mtBsxTUOcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=creative+writing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LvrEVM2OFvKQ7Ab- nIHgCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false mtBsxTUOcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=creative+writing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LvrEVM2OFvKQ7Ab- nIHgCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false ‘On Writing’Steven King ‘On Writing’ Qa0hIDoCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false Qa0hIDoCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=creative%20writing&f=false

Plan: Before break Continue with 1:2:1s Introduction to Poetry Writing After break Penguin Event

Burn’s Night

Warm up …. with a Haiku What is the Structure of a Haiku Poem? Line 1 – 5 syllables Line 2 – 7 syllables Line 3 – 5 syllables What is the Structure of a Haiku Poem? Line 1 – 5 syllables Line 2 – 7 syllables Line 3 – 5 syllables

A Haiku Richard Wright ( ) Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. Richard Wright ( ) Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind.

A Haiku I hear crackling Crunch, of today’s new found day And know it won’t last I hear crackling Crunch, of today’s new found day And know it won’t last

Inspiration for Writing Haikus… brevitystructure subjectimagery The brevity and structure of haiku are powerful enough to evoke emotion and inspire readers. An important element of haiku is the subject and the imagery used to convey an idea or thought. When writing haiku, it is essential to conjure up an idea to express. One can look towards many sources of inspiration to come up with his ideas and thoughts.

Read poetry on Twitter… or tweet your poem!

Seasons Daily Observances Human activity

Share in the classroom? Tweet your poem?

Three golden rules … and Poetry Writing Read the extract from Steven Fry’s ‘The Ode Less Travelled’

On Poetry…

What form? Structure vs. Non-structured What ‘traditional structures’ do you associate with poetry?

Escape at Bedtime

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out Through the blinds and the windows and bars; And high overhead and all moving about, There were thousands of millions of stars. There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree, Nor of people in church or the Park, As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me, And that glittered and winked in the dark.

Escape at Bedtime The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all, And the star of the sailor, and Mars, These shown in the sky, and the pail by the wall Would be half full of water and stars. They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries, And they soon had me packed into bed; But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes, And the stars going round in my head.

The Red Wheelbarrow BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

Free Verse the poet can give his own shape to a poem how he/she desires alliteration, rhyme, cadences or rhythms to get the effects that they consider are suitable for the pieceFree verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules and still provide artistic expression. In this way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem how he/she desires. However, it still allows poets to use alliteration, rhyme, cadences or rhythms to get the effects that they consider are suitable for the piece.

Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Writing prompt… Describe the piece of art and tell its story – think about what you can’t see, as well as what you can. Try putting yourself in the picture – what do you see, hear, touch, smell, even taste? Tell it in the present tense to help bring the scene described to life. Describe the piece of art and tell its story – think about what you can’t see, as well as what you can. Try putting yourself in the picture – what do you see, hear, touch, smell, even taste? Tell it in the present tense to help bring the scene described to life.

On Poetry…. Many forms, many poets… What form are you comfortable writing in? Who has inspired you? What ideas have inspired you? Many forms, many poets… What form are you comfortable writing in? Who has inspired you? What ideas have inspired you?

Ideas for your coursework Choose and research a form! Choose and research a form! (just a few ideas) Write a… villanelle with-poetic-form-1-the-villanelle/ with-poetic-form-1-the-villanelle/ … a pantoum …a sestina… a ballad… a sonnet… Write a response to another poemWrite a response to another poem (see Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Answering Back’ – see ‘The Green Wheelbarrow’ – also look up, ‘ They Tuck You Up’, by Adrian Mitchell in response to Phillip Larkin Choose and research a form! Choose and research a form! (just a few ideas) Write a… villanelle with-poetic-form-1-the-villanelle/ with-poetic-form-1-the-villanelle/ … a pantoum …a sestina… a ballad… a sonnet… Write a response to another poemWrite a response to another poem (see Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Answering Back’ – see ‘The Green Wheelbarrow’ – also look up, ‘ They Tuck You Up’, by Adrian Mitchell in response to Phillip Larkin

Other poems inspired by paintings: inspired-paintingshttp:// inspired-paintings … and paintings inspired by poems… blog/gallery/2014/sep/01/worth-a-thousand-words-reader-art-poetry-in-pictureshttp:// blog/gallery/2014/sep/01/worth-a-thousand-words-reader-art-poetry-in-pictures Poetry prompts prompts.htmlhttp:// prompts.html Other poems inspired by paintings: inspired-paintingshttp:// inspired-paintings … and paintings inspired by poems… blog/gallery/2014/sep/01/worth-a-thousand-words-reader-art-poetry-in-pictureshttp:// blog/gallery/2014/sep/01/worth-a-thousand-words-reader-art-poetry-in-pictures Poetry prompts prompts.htmlhttp:// prompts.html

Ideas… Anything can inspire - This website is good for ideas… ideas.htmlhttp:// ideas.html Read, read, read! Keep your journal on you Anything can inspire - This website is good for ideas… ideas.htmlhttp:// ideas.html Read, read, read! Keep your journal on you

Over to you! – independent reading and research The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, by David Morley, Chapter 8: Writing Poetry, p The Ode Less Travelled, by Steven Fry Poetryfoundation.org The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, by David Morley, Chapter 8: Writing Poetry, p The Ode Less Travelled, by Steven Fry Poetryfoundation.org

Journal prompts exercises.phphttp:// exercises.php Quotes on poetry about-poetry/ about-poetry/