AQA Anthology

AQA Anthology

"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.

English : Poems from Other Cultures

Cluster 1

Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Limbo

Tatamkhulu Afrika: Nothing's Changed
Grace Nichols: Island Man

Imtiaz Dharker: Blessing

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes

Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion

Chinua Achebe: Vultures

Denise Levertov: What Were They Like?

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

English Literature : Poetry

eamus Heaney

Storm on the Island

Perch

Blackberry-Picking

Death of a Naturalist

Digging

Mid-Term Break

Follower

At a Potato Digging

Gillian Clarke

Catrin

Baby-sitting

Mali

A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998

The Field Mouse

October

On The Train

Cold Knap Lake

Carol Ann Duffy

Havisham Elvis's Twin Sister

Anne Hathaway

Salome

We Remember Your Childhood Well

Before You Were Mine

Education for Leisure

imon 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

Ben Jonson: On My First Sonne

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

Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid

John Clare: Sonnet - “I love to see the summer...”

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


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