Tutor information
Giles Goodland
Giles Goodland has published several books of poetry and has taught for the OUDCE for several years.
Courses
This course guides you through 'modernism' in English language poetry. It revolutionised poetry and changed it fundamentally. Where did it come from, who were the principal figures, and what defines poetry as modernist? And what happened to it?
This course guides you through inherited literary concepts of 'place' - pastoral, landscape, etc. - before addressing contemporary poetry of an age of rapid travel, forced migration, environmental loss, virtual presence, and the centrality of language.
The course will guide you through inherited literary concepts of 'place' - pastoral, landscape, etc. - before addressing contemporary poetry of an age of rapid travel, forced migration, environmental loss, virtual presence, and the centrality of language.