Readings
Poetry
Poems written by students in the practice, published with their consent and credited to them. Each is read for what the writing does rather than for what it scored.
What is taught against these pieces
The moves taught against poems of this kind, drawn from the practice's own technique record.
- Tone Identification via Textual Evidence
- Identifying a poem's tone and justifying it with specific textual evidence and named poetic devices, rather than asserting tone impressionistically.
- Repetition and Rhyme as Evidence of Thematic Argument
- Reading formal and structural features, repetition and identical end rhyme among them, as deliberate choices reinforcing a poem's thematic argument.
- Volta / Structural Analysis
- Naming specific structural devices, the volta or turn among them, and asking how structural elements enable or resolve a poem's meaning.
- Poetic Conceit Analysis
- Analysing an extended conceit by contrasting two symbolic registers within the poem to articulate its underlying philosophical statement.
- Haiku Practice
- Direct 5-7-5 composition on everyday topics, sometimes with two versions compared, used to build economy of language and imagistic precision.
These are drawn from the record of techniques used in lessons. The full archive holds every piece published so far, and the Clinic works the same moves at the level of a single sentence.