Lecture:
- Mon 3-4 pm [SNW100]
Workshops:
- Tues 11-1 pm [SC3]
- Wed 8-10 am [SC1]
- Wed 10-12 noon [SC3]
Week 1
Mon (25/2): Lecture 1
Course Introduction: Fiction - What is it?
Texts:
- Philip K. Dick, ‘Beyond Lies the Wub’
- Vivienne Plumb, ‘from Plumb's Fables’
- Leonora Carrington, ‘The Debutante’
Workshop assignment in lecture
Week 2
Mon (4/3): Lecture 2
Fiction: Character
Texts:
- Owen Marshall, ‘Mumsie and Zip’
- Lydia Davis, ‘Letter to a Funeral Parlor’
- Tobias Wolff, ‘Bullet in the Brain’
Workshop 1
Week 3
Mon (11/3): Lecture 3
Fiction: Setting
Texts:
- Janet Frame, ‘The Bedjacket’
- Michael Morrissey, ‘Jack Kerouac Sat Down beside the Wanganui River and Wept’
- Frank Sargeson, ‘A Great Day’
Workshop 2
Group 1: Workshop stories due.
Week 4
Mon (18/3): Lecture 4
Fiction: Point of View
Texts:
- Ernest Hemingway, ‘Hills Like White Elephants’
- Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Doll’s House’
- Patricia Grace, ‘The Lamp’
Workshop 3
Group 1: Peer critiques.
Group 1: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 2: Workshop stories due.
Week 5
Mon (25/3): Lecture 5
Fiction: Detail
Texts:
- Angela Carter, ‘The Snow Child’
- Maurice Duggan, ‘A Small Story’
- James Joyce, ‘Clay’
Workshop 4
Group 2: Peer critiques.
Group 2: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 3: Workshop stories due.
[EASTER STUDY-BREAK]
(29/3-12/4)
Week 6
Mon (15/4): Lecture 6
Fiction: Meaning
Texts:
- Raymond Carver, ‘Cathedral’
- Bronwyn Lloyd, ‘Sink or Swim’
- Tracey Slaughter, ‘Wheat’
Workshop 5
Group 3: Peer critiques.
Group 3: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 4: Workshop stories due.
Week 7
Mon (22/4): Lecture 7
Poetry: What is it?
Texts:
- W. H. Auden, ‘Musée des Beaux-Arts’
- Michael Jackson, ‘Green Turtle’
- Cilla McQueen, ‘Timepiece’
- Marianne Moore, ‘Poetry’
- Frank O'Hara, ‘The Day Lady Died’
- Kendrick Smithyman, ‘Peter Durey’s Story’
- Wallace Stevens, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
Workshop 6
Group 4: Peer critiques.
Group 4: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Week 8
Mon (29/4): Lecture 8
Poetry: Storytelling
Texts:
- Fleur Adcock, ‘Camping’
- Stu Bagby, ‘First Dance’
- Michael Jackson, ‘Sudan’
- Vincent O’Sullivan, ‘Elegy for a School Mate’
- Sylvia Plath, ‘The Thin People' (1981 / 2000)
- Ezra Pound, ‘The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter’
Workshop 7
Group 1: Workshop poems due.
Fiction Portfolios Due
(Friday, 3rd May)
Week 9
Mon (6/5): Lecture 9
Poetry: Imagery
Texts:
- Matsuo Bashō, ‘Haiku’
- Amy Brown, ‘Siamang’
- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ‘Home from Hospital’
- Ruth Dallas, ‘Pioneer Woman with Ferrets’
- Scott Hamilton, ‘1918’
- Ezra Pound, ‘In a Station of the Metro’ (1911 / 1913)
- --,‘from Lustra’
Workshop 8
Group 1: Peer critiques.
Group 1: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 2: Workshop poems due.
Week 10
Mon (13/5): Lecture 10
Poetry: Figures of Speech
Texts:
- W. H. Auden, ‘Brussels in Winter’ (1938 / 1966)
- Kevin Ireland, ‘Cloud’
- Thérèse Lloyd, ‘In Levin’
- Deborah Pope, ‘ Getting Through’
- Jack Ross, ‘Coromandel’
- William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnets 130 & 138’
Workshop 9
Group 2: Peer critiques.
Group 2: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 3: Workshop poems due.
Week 11
Mon (20/5): Lecture 11
Poetry: Form
Texts:
- Elizabeth Bishop, ‘One Art’
- e. e. cummings, ‘l(a’
- Allen Curnow, ‘The Game of Tag’
- Michele Leggott, ‘Micromelismata’
- Peter Reading, ‘from Perduta gente’
- Hone Tuwhare, ‘cummings’
- Sonja Yelich, ‘narrow neck from the boat ramp’
Workshop 10
Group 3: Peer critiques.
Group 3: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 4: Workshop poems due.
Week 12
Mon (27/5): Lecture 12
Poetry: Precision
Texts:
- James K. Baxter, ‘from Jerusalem Sonnets’
- Janet Charman, ‘injection’
- Matt Harris, ‘Pathoscape’
- Robert Lowell, ‘Skunk Hour’
- Eugenio Montale, ‘Montale's Sunflower’
- Derek Walcott, ‘from The Schooner Flight’
Workshop 11
Group 4: Peer critiques
Group 4: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Poetry Portfolios Due
(Friday, 7th June)
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