The Spiral Stairwell: Self Pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

... D H Lawrence

The Plan

week	Topics
1	‘In the beginning was the word’: creation myths
2	‘It’s all a lie, but there’s a why’: parables and fables, fairy and folk tales
3	‘What is Poetry?’—the Good, the bad and the ugly
4	Poetry and ‘the Condition of Music’
5	Scratching the Surface of Poetry—and Diving Deep
6	Silence! (in Poetry)
7	Style: Your Own Personality
9	Stealing, Alluding and Answering in Poetry (nothing new—and Homer did it too)
10	Poetry: Building Your House
11	‘And Then And Then’: telling (tall) stories
12	‘Who’s Talking?’—style in fiction
13	‘The Art of Saying Less’—implicating the reader
14	Revisioning. Radical and refining rewrites.

week

Topics

‘In the beginning was the word’: creation myths

‘It’s all a lie, but there’s a why’: parables and fables, fairy and folk tales

‘What is Poetry?’—the Good, the bad and the ugly

Poetry and ‘the Condition of Music’

Scratching the Surface of Poetry—and Diving Deep

Silence! (in Poetry)

Style: Your Own Personality

Stealing, Alluding and Answering in Poetry (nothing new—and Homer did it too)

Poetry: Building Your House

‘And Then And Then’: telling (tall) stories

‘Who’s Talking?’—style in fiction

‘The Art of Saying Less’—implicating the reader

Revisioning.

Radical and refining rewrites.

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