AQA Anthology
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This article refers to the AQA Anthology at G.C.S.E. For the AQA Anthology at A-level see AQA Anthology (A-level).
The AQA Anthology is a collection of poems and short texts which are studied in English schools for GCSE English and English Literature. The anthology is split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There is also a section of prose pieces, which may be studied in schools that have chosen not to study a separate set text.
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[edit] English : Poems from Other Cultures
[edit] Cluster 1
Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Limbo
Tatamkhulu Afrika: Nothing's Changed
Grace Nichols: Island Man
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes
Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
Denise Levertov: What Were They Like?
[edit] Cluster 2
Sujata Bhatt: Search For My Tongue
Tom Leonard: Unrelated Incidents
John Agard: Half-Caste
Derek Walcott: Love After Love
Imtiaz Dharker: This Room
Niyi Osundare: Not My Business
Moniza Alvi: Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan
Grace Nichols: Hurricane Hits England
[edit] English Literature : Poetry
[edit] Seamus Heaney
Storm on the Island
Perch
Blackberry-Picking
Follower
At a Potato Digging
[edit] Gillian Clarke
Baby-sitting
Mali
A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998
The Field Mouse
October
Cold Knap Lake
[edit] Carol Ann Duffy
Elvis's Twin Sister
We Remember Your Childhood Well
Before You Were Mine
Education for Leisure
[edit] Simon Armitage
from Book of Matches, “Mother, any distance greater than a single span”
from Book of Matches, “My father thought it...”
Homecoming
November
from Book of Matches, “Those bastards in their mansions”
from Book of Matches, “I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself”
Hitcher
[edit] Pre-1914 Poetry Bank
William Butler Yeats: The Song of the Old Mother
William Wordsworth: The Affliction of Margaret
William Blake: The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found
Charles Tichborne: Tichborne's Elegy
Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed
Walt Whitman: Patrolling Barnegat
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 - “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Robert Browning: The Laboratory
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
Oliver Goldsmith: The Village Schoolmaster
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
John Clare: Sonnet - “I love to see the summer...”
[edit] English Literature : Prose
Doris Lessing: Flight
Sylvia Plath: Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit
Michèle Roberts: Your Shoes
Joyce Cary: Growing Up
Ernest Hemingway: The End of Something
Graham Swift: Chemistry
Leslie Norris: Snowdrops
