the reading lists of The Edinburgh Creative Writing MSC（ Poetry）

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Postgraduate Course: Elements of Poetry One: The Mind's Eye (Distance Learning) (ENLI11167)

Addonizio, Kim and Dorianne Laux, The Poet¿s Companion Ahmad, Dohra, Rotten English Basho, Matsuo, Of Love and Barley Bloom, Harold, The Anxiety of Influence Eliot, T.S.,The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism Gioia, Dana, David Mason and Meg Shoerke (eds), 20th Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry Herbert, W.N., Writing Poetry ---. and Matthew Hollis (eds), Strong Words: Modern Poets on Poetry Leonard, Tom, Intimate Voices: Selected Works 1965-1983 Levertov, Denise, The Poet in the World Lopez, Tony, Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry Mi¿osz, Czes¿aw, The Captive Mind Parini, Jay, Why Poetry Matters Paulin, Tom, The Secret Life of Poems Wolosky, Shira, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Postgraduate Course: Elements of Poetry Two: Forms, Formalities and Variations (Distance Learning) (ENLI11168)

Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space Broom, Sarah, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction Durcan, Paul, Give Me Your Hand Felstiner, John, Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems Hollander, John, Rhyme¿s Reason Langbaum, Robert, The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition Lorca, Federico Garcia, In Search of Duende Middleton, Christopher, Jackdaw Jiving Muldoon, Paul, The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry Oliver, Mary, Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse Paz, Octavio, The Labyrinth of Solitude Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century ---. Wittgenstein¿s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Rice, Adrian and Angela Reid (eds), A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art Steiner, George, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation Strunk, William and White, E.B., The Elements of Style

Miscellaneous Anthologies

Brown, Stacey Lynn and Oliver de la Paz, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry Donaghy, Michael, 101 Poems about Childhood Kay, Jackie et al., Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets Longley, Edna, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry Muldoon, Paul, The Faber Book of Beasts Oswald, Alice, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet Paterson, Don, 101 Sonnets Riordan, Maurice, A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science

Postgraduate Course: Ways and means: Novella, Novel in Stories, Novel (Distance Learning) (ENLI11166)

Again you’ll essentially read these books and write essays on them. 11. Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude 12. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey 13. Machado de Assis: Epitaph of a Small Winner 14. Knut Hamsun, Hunger 15. Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English 16. Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter 17. Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango 18. Toni Morrison, Love 19. Janice Galloway, Clara 20. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants

Postgraduate Course: Diversities: Voices of the New Millennium (Distance Learning) (ENLI11169)

Ruth Padel, The Mara Crossing, Sharon Olds, Selected Poems, Don Paterson, Selected Poems, Charles Simic, The voice at 3am: Selected Late and New Poems, Sinéad Morrissey: Through the Square Window, Les Murray, Learning Human, Selected Poems, Rita Dove, American Smooth, Simon Armitage, Seeing Stars, Lorna Goodison, Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems, George Szirtes, Bad Machine Allen, Donald, The New American Poetry Bloom, Harold: The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry Bachelard, Gaston,The Poetics of Space Boiseau, Bar-Nadar and Wallace, Writing Poetry Brinnin, Read & McKenna (eds) The Modern Poets Brown, Clare and Paterson, Don, Don¿t Ask Me What I Mean;Poets in Their Own Words Faas, Ekbert, Towards A New American Poetics: Essays and Interviews Fenton, James, An Introduction to English Poetry Gioia,Mason and Shoerke, eds: 20th Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry Harmon, William (ed), Classic Writings on Poetry Herbert, W.N. and Hollis, Mathew, Strong Words: Modern Poets on Poetry. Lopez, Tony, Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry Muldoon, Paul, End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry Padel, Ruth, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by other Means in the New Century Spender, Stephen, The Making of a Poem Wolosky, Shira, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

In preparation for their final folio, students will receive five individual consultations with their supervisor and contribute to three writing forums. In late August of the year in question they will submit for assessment: for poetry it will be c.35 pages of poetry and for fiction will be between 20,000 and 30,000 words.