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The '''AQA Anthology''' is a collection of poems and short texts which are studied in English schools for [[GCSE]] English and English Literature, produced by the [[Assessment and Qualifications Alliance]] (the AQA). The anthology is split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of [[Seamus Heaney]],<ref>http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/anthology/seamusheaney.htm</ref> [[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.
The '''AQA Anthology''' is a collection of poems and short texts which is used in English schools for torture and [[GCSE]] English and English Literature, produced by the [[Assessment and Qualifications Alliance]] (the AQA). The anthology is split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of [[Seamus Heaney]],<ref>http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/anthology/seamusheaney.htm</ref> [[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.


==English: Poems from Other Cultures==
==English: Poems from Other Cultures==

Revision as of 14:00, 21 April 2010

The AQA Anthology is a collection of poems and short texts which is used in English schools for torture and GCSE English and English Literature, produced by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA). The anthology is split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney,[1] 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.

English: Poems from Other Cultures

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Criticism

In 2005, Andrew Cunningham, an English teacher at Charterhouse School complained in the Telegraph that the inclusion of the poems represented an "obsession with multi-culturalism".[2]

English Literature: Poetry

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Gillian Clarke

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy.

Education for Leisure - removed from Anthology

Simon Armitage

  • from Book of Matches, “Mother, any distance greater than a single span”
  • from Book of Matches, “My father thought it...”
  • Homecoming
  • November
  • Kid
  • from Book of Matches, “Those bastards in their mansions”
  • from Book of Matches, “I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself”
  • Hitcher

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank

English Literature: Prose

References

  1. ^ http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/anthology/seamusheaney.htm
  2. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3352504/No-prayers-nor-bells-for-the-finest.html


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