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Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, many people from all walks of life started to write creatively about their experience or reflect on the experiences of others.

Course Description

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, many people from all walks of life started to write creatively about their experience or reflect on the experiences of others. This module will develop those skills in articulating creative written responses through poetry to globally traumatic events. In the face of a constant news cycle, it is believed that drawing on pandemics, natural disasters, and international conflict to respond creatively, new viewpoints can be reached to advance critical thinking. 

 
There will be close readings of war poets like Wilfrid Owen and Edward Thomas, writing from the post-war period by Evelyn Waugh, through to more contemporary works including pandemic poetry from Jamie Hale, Lisa Simpson, and Mab Jones, and poetry following natural disaster (Clare E Potter on Hurricane Katrina) and climate change writing from Robert Minhinnick.