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MASSEY ALBANY
School of English and Media Studies


English 139.750:

Contemporary NZ Writers
in an International Context

The idea of this course is a very straightforward one: to take a few significant contemporary New Zealand writers and look at their work against a background of global trends and ideologies. Each time the course is taught, we examine a different genre. This year (semester 2, 2017), the focus is on poetry and poetics. The plan is to pair off five local poets with five international ones as a means of starting a conversation about some of the larger issues that affect them all: globalization, history, identity, indigeneity and post-colonialism.


Administration Guide:

• Welcome


• Course Timetable


• Contact Workshop (2-3/9/17)


• Course Description


• Bibliography


• Assessment

Author Pages:

• Anne Carson (b.1950)


• Fiona Farrell (b.1947)


• Michael Harlow (b.1930)


• Susan Howe (b.1937)


• Michele Leggott (b.1956)


• Graham Lindsay (b.1952)


• Paul Muldoon (b.1951)


• Peter Reading (1946-2011)


• Derek Walcott (1930-2017)


• Ian Wedde (b.1946)

Poetry Sessions:

1. Module 1 - Graham Lindsay / Peter Reading
   
   • The Notebook Process


2. Module 2 - Michele Leggott / Susan Howe
   
   • In the Archives


3. Module 3 - Paul Muldoon / Fiona Farrell
   
   • The Anxiety of Genre-Bending


4. Module 4 - Anne Carson / Michael Harlow
   
   • Back to the Classics


5. Module 5 - Ian Wedde / Derek Walcott
   
   • Postcolonial / Post-canonical Blues

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