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.

Contents

English : Poems from Other Cultures

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

English Literature : Poetry

Seamus Heaney

Gillian Clarke

Carol Ann Duffy

Simon Armitage

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank

English Literature : Prose

External links

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

Seamus 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
Before You Were Mine
We Remember Your Childhood Well
Education for Leisure

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

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

External links

★ Notes on the poems in the Pre-1914 poetry

★ Notes on the poems from different cultures

★ Notes on the poems by Seamus Heaney

★ Notes on the poems by Gillian Clarke

★ Notes on the poems by Carol Ann Duffy

★ Notes on the poems by Simon Armitage