READING RECOMMENDATIONS

MODULE 0: WARMING UP

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Anne Lamott - ‘Bird by Bird’ (Anchor Books, 1994)

MODULE 1: BREAKING IN

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Barbara Guest - ‘Forces of Imagination‘ (Kelsey Street Press, 2002)

  • Robert Macfarlane - ‘Underland‘ (Hamish Hamilton, 2019)

  • Maggie Smith - ‘Good Bones‘ (Tupelo Press, 2017)

MODULE 2: GROUNDING THE READER

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Mary Oliver - ‘A Poetry Handbook‘ (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

  • Rishi Dastidar (ed.) - ‘The Craft‘ (Nine Arches Press, 2019)

  • Jacqueline Saphra - ‘All My Mad Mothers‘ (Nine Arches Press, 2017)

MODULE 3: PICTURE PERFECT

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Kim Addonizio - ‘Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012)

  • Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux - ‘The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997)

  • Wendy Pratt - ‘When I Think of My Body as a Horse’ (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2021)

MODULE 4: THROWING SHAPES

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Jo Bell & Jane Commane (ed.) - ‘How to Be a Poet: A 21st Century Guide to Writing Well‘ (Nine Arches Press, 2017)

  • Mary Oliver - ‘A Poetry Handbook‘ (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

  • Nathalie Diaz - ‘When My Brother Was an Aztec‘ (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)

  • Eavan Boland & Mark Strand - ‘The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 2001)

MODULE 5: GETTING INTO CHARACTER

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Tony Hoagland, with Kay Cosgrove - ‘The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles & Practice’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 2019)

  • Kim Addonizio - ‘Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within’ (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012)

  • Liz Berry - ‘Black Country’ (Chatto & Windus, 2014)

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MODULE 6: EXIT STRATEGY

Texts referenced in this module:

  • Tania Hershman essay - ‘The Craft‘ (Rishi Dastidar (ed.) Nine Arches Press, 2019)

  • James Wright - ‘Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose’ (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)

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