
WRITE202-22B (HAM)
Creative Writing: Voice and Image
15 Points
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Tracey Slaughter
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tracey.slaughter@waikato.ac.nz
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Paper Description
Paper Structure
Each lecture will discuss techniques and structures central to vital imagery and compelling voice, examining these techniques in action through close analysis of selected poetry and prose. Workshop exercises will then stimulate the student to apply these discoveries to their own writing, challenging them to experiment with aspects of image and voice through direct engagement with the page. Work-in-progress generated by these exercises will be presented weekly for constructive critique online and within workshop sessions, producing a portfolio for final assessment.
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper should be able to:
Assessment
Assessment Components
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
Required and Recommended Readings
Required Readings
Texts:
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
Course Reader: available for purchase from Campus Copy, containing selected poetry and prose extracts from the following:
SECTION A: POETRY
Billy Collins, ‘Introduction to Poetry.’
Zbigniew Herbert, ‘Five Men.’
Adrienne Rich, ‘Diving into the Wreck.’
Archibald McLeish, ‘Ars Poetica.’
Olivia Macassey, ‘Outhwaite Park.’
Emma Neale, ‘Confessional Poem.’
Ruby Solly, ‘tūī.’
Tayi Tibble, ‘Identity Politics.’
Shivani Agrawal, ‘Notes on my tongue.’
Rhegan Tu’akoi, ‘to be brown / not brown.’
Miriama Gemmell, ‘off the endangered list.’
Hana Pera Aoake, ‘The bigger the burn the tougher you are.’
Olivia Macassey ‘A & E.’
Rae Varcoe, ‘How Can I Tell You This In 30 Minutes?’
Honor Moore, ‘Mourning Pictures.’
Lynn Emanuel, ‘Frying Trout While Drunk.’
Vincent O’Sullivan, ‘Surfacing.’
James Brown, ‘The End of the Runway.’
Philip Larkin, ‘This be the Verse.’
Wallace Stevens, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.’
Alice Te Punga Somerville, ‘Rakau.’
Dinah Hawken, ‘Talking to a Tree Fern.’
Anna Smaill, ‘Apples.’
Beverley Farmer, ‘Figs.’
Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror.’
Craig Raine, ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.’
Sonja Yelich, ‘1YA.’
Sonja Yelich, ‘writing desk.’
Lynn Emanuel, ‘Single Girl. One Room Flat.’
Hone Tuwhare, ‘To A Maori figure cast in bronze outside the Chief Post Office, Auckland.’
Trixie Te Arama Menzies, ‘Maui Steals Time.’
Ben Brown, ‘I am the Maori Jesus.’
Louise Erdrich, ‘Painting of a White Gate and Sky.’
Jayne Anne Phillips, ‘Wedding Picture.’
Gregory O’Brien, ‘Walking Woman.’
Sonya Yelich, ‘whangaparoa – on the sundeck.’
Sharon Olds, ‘I Go Back to May 1937.’
Anne Sexton, ‘Baby Picture.’
Helen Chasin, ‘The Word Plum.’
Mark Strand, ‘Eating Poetry.’
Donna Masini, ‘Cherry Ice.’
Denise Levertov, ‘O Taste and See.’
Sharon Olds, 'Sex Without Love.'
Sharon Olds, 'I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror.'
Natasha Saje, ‘Creation Story.’
Emma Neale, ‘Four and Seven’ and ‘The Artist’s Models Reply.’
Hone Tuwhare, ‘Inconspicuously Sensual.’
Rachel McAlpine, ‘Burning the Liberty Bodice.’
Emily Dickinson, ‘It Was not Death,’ ‘The Soul has Bandaged moments’ & ‘I felt a Funeral in my Brain.’
John Donne, ‘Holy Sonnet XIV.’
Philip Larkin, ‘The Trees.’
Steven Cramer, ‘Villanelle After a Burial.’
Sylvia Plath, ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song.’
Dylan Thomas, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.’
Mary Stanley, ‘Sestina.’
Dan Lechay, ‘Ghost Villanelle.’
Bill Manhire, ‘Erebus Voices: The Mountain’ and ‘Erebus Voices: The Dead.’
Alice Te Punga Somerville, ‘mad ave.’
SECTION B: PROSE:
Lorrie Moore, 'How to Become a Writer.'
Michelle Rahurahu, ‘whakarongo.’
Alice Tawhai, ‘Old Ways.’
Patrick White, 'Down at the Dump'
Anne Enright,The Gathering
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Maurice Duggan, ‘Along Rideout Road That Summer’
Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow
Luke Davies, Candy
Tim Winton, The Turning
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time
Helen Zahavi, Dirty Weekend
Ernest Hemingway 'Hills Like White Elephants'
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Airana Ngarewa, ‘Pātea Pools’
Don de Lillo, Underworld
Rick Moody, The Ice Storm
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
Handouts detailing workshop exercises will be circulated during each lecture.
CONTENT NOTE: The readings on this paper engage with the embodied world and may touch on sensitive and confronting material, such as violence, sexuality and suicide. Some of this content could be emotionally and intellectually challenging. I will do my best to signal more specific content warnings for relevant texts, and to engage with difficult content empathetically and sensitively within our class discussions, but if you think that reading and discussing these texts might present extra challenges for you please let me or your tutors know so that we can identify strategies to support you.
Online Support
There is an online Moodle community for this course. Moodle can be accessed via iWaikato. Lecture material, tutorial exercises, workshop discussion forums, assignment details, important dates and the paper outline will all be available from this site.
Workload
The expected workload for this paper is 12 hours per week (4 hours of class time and 8 hours of self-directed study) throughout the 17 week semester.
Linkages to Other Papers
WRITE300 Creative Nonfiction
WRITE546 Creative Writing: Writing and Embodiment
Restriction(s)
Restricted papers: ENGL215