Week 1. Song as incantation: the roots of poetry (Peter Blegvad)

Week 2. Re-writing the hymn: Isaac Watts to Sufjan Stevens (Emma Mason)

Week 3. Between Spiritual and Animal: Julian Jaynes, Patti Smith, Harry Smith, Folk Music (Peter Blegvad)

Week 4: Romanticism and the folk tradition: William Blake to John Clare (Emma Mason)

Week 5: Performance poetry I (Jack McGowan)

Week 6: Performance poetry II (Jack McGowan)

Week 7. Bob Dylan, the Beats, and the Secret of Nothing (Peter Blegvad)

Week 8: Music and ecopoetics (Jonathan Skinner)

Week 9. Listening and Sound (Emma Mason)

Week 10. Dark Sounds: Lorca's 'Duende' (flamenco), Blues and Soul / Hootenanny (Peter Blegvad)