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MA Poetic Practice – (M.A.)
Royal Holloway University of London
Department of English| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,253 - ≈ € 13,916 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Royal Holloway University of London
This is a unique, practice-based course that draws upon the Department of English’s expertise in contemporary experimental poetry and writing within an expanded field.
The course will immerse you in poetry and poetic production for the 21st Century. You will cultivate your own creative practice within the context of current experimental poetic practice and related developments in visual and performing arts, new media and contemporary theory. Innovative poetries by writers from the UK and North America will be studied, and you will consider how contemporary poetry and poetics intersect with such fields as conceptual art writing, sound art, live art, digital poetics, book arts, installed texts and writing in relation to site.
During this MA you will produce your own writing and gain skills in writing for a range of contemporary contexts and environments. In addition, you will undertake a practical work project and a dissertation which contextualises your own practice.
Contents
You will take five core course units, including a dissertation.
Core course units:
Poetic Practice - This taught course unit involves the study of contemporary UK and North American experimental poetic practice and foregrounds the development of the student's own poetic practice in response to this context.
Contemporary Technologies of Writing -
This taught course unit involves the study and practice of contemporary poetry and writing in an expanded field, with students cultivating their own creative practice in relation to developments in the visual arts, new media, sound art, site-related work and performance.
Practical Work Project -
This independent-study course unit involves the support and development of students’ own poetic practice leading to a large-scale, independent project responding creatively to relevant critical, theoretical and contextual research in the field of poetic practice.
Dissertation -
The dissertation consists of critical reflection on the practice of the Final Work Project, situating the project theoretically and historically in relation to contemporary poetic practice as well as the wider contexts studied on the course.
Methods and Materials of Research -
This course unit is designed to introduce some of the key skills required for graduate work as well as to inform students about library and computing resources. This work is examined through a Pass/Fail examination.
As part of the course, students also attend the Department's research seminars as well as the TALKS series organised by Professor Hampson and the POLYply even series organised by the Poetics Research Group. Students also have the opportunity to attend a variety of other seminars at the CES, IUSS and other central London locations.
On completion of the course graduates will have:
* gained a broad and thorough understanding of developments within contemporary poetry and poetics as well as writing in an expanded field
* refined a mode of poetic practice to produce a substantial body of creative work in relation to this context
* honed critical and analytical skills in order to effectively evaluate and reflect on creative work
* combined academic research and creative practice in such a way as to prepare one for further practice-based research at PhD level.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Equivalent of at least a British Second Class Honours Degree.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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