The Spiral Stairwell: May 2010

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

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.