The MA in Creative Writing's Poetic Practice pathway addresses poetry and poetic production for the 21st Century. It foregrounds contemporary experimental practices in poetry, contemporary theory and other media. The core course on Poetic Practice (EN5901) explores contemporary experimental practice in the UK and North America and encourages the student to develop their own experimental practice in this context. The principal aim of the course is to enable students to develop (and reflect on) their own practice in the context of an understanding of contemporary experimental practice in poetry from the UK and North America, and to consider how contemporary poetry and poetics intersect with fields such as conceptual art writing, sound art, live art, digital poetics, book arts, installed texts and site responsive writing. The focus of the course is on particular poetic practices that are currently developing in the UK, USA and Canada. The course aims to encourage individual exploration in the range of contemporary poetic practice: it aims to develop advanced skills in the reading and writing of  poetic practice, to develop a critical and theoretical language to discuss this practice, to introduce students to the possibilities of the use of a variety of media as part of their poetic practice and to recognise this in the work of other practitioners. The emphasis of the course is on the student’s development of their own poetic practice in the context of contemporary UK and North American experimental and research-based innovative writing and in relation to current theoretical explorations of poetic practice in other fields. The course is designed for students intending to develop both their knowledge of contemporary practice and their own poetic practice beyond first-degree level.