English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Writing poetry...and beyond
Volume 2 Number 2 September 2003
Douglas McClenaghan (Monash University, Australia)
This article examines a piece of writing produced
by a year nine student in a Literature elective class. This student
text challenges conventional understandings of "writing", "poetry" and
"text", and offers an example of how one student has used multimodality
to create a distinctive text.