Autumn term (5 Oct—11 Dec)

 Week 1, 8 Oct Michael Hulse

• Introduction
• Poetry and the speaking voice
• Poetry and tradition(s)
• Poetry and national identity
• Poetry and post-colonial identity
• Poetry: the public and the personal
• Poetry, religion, myth
• Rhythm and image

Week 2, 15 Oct Michael Hulse

• Responses to tradition (1)
• Robert Gray

Week 3, 22Oct Helen M Dennis

• Post-War strategies in the US (1) 

Week 4, 29 Oct Helen M Dennis

• Post-War strategies in the US (2)

Week 5, 5 Nov Michael Hulse

• Post-War strategies in the UK (1)
• Philip Larkin and The Movement

Reading Week

Week 7, 19 Nov Michael Hulse

• Post-War strategies in the UK (2)
• Geoffrey Hill and Ted Hughes

Week 8, 26 Nov Michael Hulse

• Responses to tradition (2)
• Derek Walcott

Week 9, 3 Dec Michael Hulse

• Poetry, religion, myth (1)
• Allen Curnow and James K. Baxter

Week 10, 10 Dec Michael Hulse

• Poetry, religion, myth (2)
• Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon

Spring term (11 Jan—19 Mar)

 

Week 1, 14 Jan Graeme MacDonald

• Poetry and national identity (1)
• Scotland (from MacDiarmid to the present)

Week 2, 21Jan Cathia Jenainati

• Poetry and national identity (2)
• Canada 

Week 3, 28 Jan Michael Hulse

• Poetry and national identity (3)
• Australia (A. D. Hope, James McAuley)

Week 4, 4 Feb Michael Hulse

• Poetry and national identity (4)
• Australia (Judith Wright, Les Murray)

Week 5, 11 Feb Neil Lazarus

• Poetry and post-colonial identity:
• Anglophone African poetry

Reading Week

 Week 7, 25 Feb Michael Hulse

• Poetry: the public and the personal (1)
• Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell

Week 8, 4 Mar  Michael Hulse

• Poetry: the public and the personal (2)
• Sharon Olds and Michael Hofmann 

Week 9, 11 Mar Michael Hulse

• Rhythm, image, association (1)
• Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery

Week 10, 18 Mar Michael Hulse

• Rhythm, image, association (2)
• Charles Simic, Imtiaz Dharker