Poetry: Rosemary Dobson and Kenneth Slessor's Prescribed Poems

What this note covers

1. Treat a poetry selection as a connected prescribed text
2. Read Dobson through perspective, thresholds and attention
3. Develop Dobson evidence without flattening the ordinary
4. Read Slessor for tensions in time, place and belonging
5. Make voice and poetic structure do analytical work
6. Build a poetry response with selection, precision and development

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