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Compare the outcomes, teaching sequence and practical projects for each course. Enrolment opens as teaching materials become available.
8 course plans
Keep a seven-day notebook of precise observations without turning every entry into a poem. Write three short pieces from one ordinary scene using different starting images.
Annotate diction, syntax and structural shifts without guessing the writer’s intentions. Read a permitted poem aloud and compare sound, tone and argument.
Lay out one original paragraph in three line structures and compare the pressure at each break. Test stanza sizes, pauses and white space against the speaker’s movement.
Write a factual inventory of an ordinary object and notice its material history. Draft three metaphors and examine what each reveals and conceals.
Review a small set of drafts and record images, structures and habits. Rewrite one draft using an unfamiliar constraint without assuming novelty means improvement.
Create a repeatable observation practice with alternatives to breath or bodily exercises. Compare invocation, question and refrain in permitted texts with clear cultural context.
Rewrite one original statement using different sentence lengths and positions of emphasis. Compare registers, invented words and precise diction without mistaking complexity for force.
Mark natural stresses in a paragraph and compare conversational and regular rhythms. Draft a short metrical poem then disturb the pattern at a meaningful moment.