Past courses

Below is a full list of past MSL courses. These will soon become available for purchase. Please email us at contact@msl.org.au with any enquiries.

“Mind is shapely, Art is shapely”: Practicing Beat Poetics
Lecturer: George Mouratidis

Moodboarding Melbourne
Lecturers: Elese Dowden & Gareth Morgan

Poetry and Magic
Lecturer: Daniel Pilkington

Metaphysical Poetry
Lecturer: Emmalea Russo

Marxist Adventures in Poetry
Lecturer: Elena Gomez

The Will to Style: critical seminars on the false problems of fiction
Lecturer: Ursula Robinson-Shaw

Creative Writing Workshop: Narrative Prose
Lecturers: Ursula Robinson-Shaw & Jack Kirne

Love Poetry
Lecturer: Lucy Van

Elegiac Poetry: Who Mourns and How
Lecturer: Autumn Royal

Visiting Authors: Transnationalism and Australian Literary History
Lecturer: Brendan Casey

The Poetics of Rebellion in Australasia
Lecturer: Elese Dowden

Nietzsche’s Children: The Nietzschean Impulse & the 20th Century Avant-Garde
Lecturer: Thomas Moran

Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus: the sound of modernity
Lecturer: Eva Birch

Genealogy of postcritique: the critic, the university, and the crisis of crisis
Lecturer: Michael Graham

Rilke’s Duino Elegies: what are poets for?
Lecturer: Eva Birch

Murnane and his precursors
Lecturer: Brendan Casey