Lecture:
- Monday 12-1 pm [AT LL2.39]
Workshop:
- Thurs 10-12 noon [MBS 1.18]
Week 1
Lecture
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
Lecture
Fiction: Character
Texts:
- Owen Marshall, ‘Mumsie and Zip’
- Frank Sargeson, ‘A Great Day’
- Tobias Wolff, ‘Bullet in the Brain’
Workshop
Assignment into peer-editing groups in workshop.
Week 3
Lecture
Fiction: Setting
Texts:
- Janet Frame, ‘The Bedjacket’
- Michael Morrissey, ‘Jack Kerouac Sat Down beside the Wanganui River and Wept’
- Julian Novitz, ‘The Bugger’
Workshop
Group 1: Workshop stories due.
Week 4
Lecture
Fiction: Point of View
Texts:
- Ernest Hemingway, ‘Hills Like White Elephants’
- Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Doll’s House’
- Alice Tawhai, ‘Old Ways’
Workshop
Group 1: Peer reviews.
Group 1: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 2: Workshop stories due.
Week 5
Lecture
Fiction: Detail
Texts:
- Angela Carter, ‘The Snow Child’
- Maurice Duggan, ‘A Small Story’
- James Joyce, ‘Clay’
Workshop
Group 2: Peer reviews.
Group 2: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 3: Workshop stories due.
Week 6
Lecture
Fiction: Meaning
Texts:
- Raymond Carver, ‘Cathedral’
- Bronwyn Lloyd, 'Sink or Swim’
- Tracey Slaughter, ‘Wheat’
Workshop
Group 3: Peer reviews.
Group 3: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 4: Workshop stories due.
[MID-SEMESTER BREAK]
(Friday 2/4 - Friday 16/4/21)
Week 7
Lecture
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
Group 4: Peer reviews.
Group 4: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Week 8
Lecture
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
Group 1: Workshop poems due.
Fiction Portfolios Due
(End of Week 8: 30/4/21)
Week 9
Lecture
Poetry: Imagery
Texts:
- Matsuo Bashō, ‘Haiku’
- Amy Brown, ‘Siamang’
- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ‘Home from Hospital’
- Ruth Dallas, ‘Pioneer Woman with Ferrets’
- Jo Emeney, ‘Heartache All Around’
- Scott Hamilton, ‘1918’
- Ezra Pound, ‘In a Station of the Metro’ (1911 / 1913)
Workshop
Group 1: Peer reviews.
Group 1: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 2: Workshop poems due.
Week 10
Lecture
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
Group 2: Peer reviews.
Group 2: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 3: Workshop poems due.
Week 11
Lecture
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
Group 3: Peer reviews.
Group 3: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Group 4: Workshop poems due.
Week 12
Lecture
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
Group 4: Peer reviews.
Group 4: poems returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Poetry Portfolios Due
(End of Week 13: 4/6/21)
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