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This list is not exhaustive but should help you to begin your exploration of poetry at KS3, GCSE and Post-16 level. It encompasses a range of works from different periods and cultural traditions. It includes some suggested teaching materials but there are many more for you to discover in the Yellow Zone Floor 1.
Agard, John. (2006). Half-caste and other poems: Vol. Hodder Literature. Hodder Children’s Books.
Agard, John, & Nichols, Grace. (1994). A Caribbean dozen: a collection of poems. Walker Books.
Alvi, Moniza. (2008). Split world. Bloodaxe.
Angelou, Maya. (2003). And still I rise. Virago.
Astley, Neil, & Robertson-Pearce, Pamela. (2008). In person: 30 poets. Bloodaxe.
Basham, Sarah, & Welsh Joint Education Committee. (2010). WJEC GCSE poetry collection: [Student book]. Heinemann.
Benson, Gerard. (1994). Does W trouble you? Puffin.
Benson, Gerard, Chernaik, Judith, & Herbert, Cicely. (2001). Poems on the underground (10th ed). Cassell.
Bentley-Davies, Caroline, Grant, David, & Taylor, Pam. (2011). Edexcel GCSE poetry anthology: Student book. Pearson Education.
Benton, Michael, & Benton, Peter. (2008). Touchstones now. Hodder & Stoughton Educational.
Berry, James. (1997). Playing a dazzler. Puffin.
Berry, James. (2002). A nest full of stars. Macmillan Children’s Books.
Bloom, Valerie. (2004). One river, many creeks: poems from all around the world. Macmillan Children’s Books.
Brown, Stewart, & McWatt, Mark. (2005). The Oxford book of Caribbean verse. Oxford University Press.
Burnett, Paula. (1986). The Penguin book of Caribbean verse: in English: Vol. The Penguin poets. Penguin.
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Burnside, John, & Riordan, Maurice. (2004). Wild reckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson’s Silent spring. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Causley, Charles. (1964). Rising early: story poems and ballads of the 20th century. Brockhampton Press.
Causley, Charles. (1992). Collected poems. Macmillan.
Chatterjee, Debjani. (2000). The Redbeck anthology of British South Asian poetry. Redbeck Press.
Chatterjee, Debjani, & Fraser, Bashabi. (2004). Rainbow world: poems from many cultures (New ed). Hodder Children’s Books.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. (2004). The rime of the ancient mariner: Vol. Vintage classics. Vintage.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, & Doré, Gustave. (1970). The rime of the ancient mariner. Dover Publications.
Cope, Wendy. (2002). Is that the new moon? Poems by women poets (New ed). Collins.
Croft, A., & Dymoke, S. (2006). Not just a game: an anthology of sporting poems. Five Leaves Publications.
Draper, David, Chaucer, Geoffrey, & National Association for the Teaching of English. (2002). Chaucer and his bawdy Miller: Vol. NATE classic reading. NATE.
Draper, David, & National Association for the Teaching of English. (1998). Murder and madness: five dramatic poems from the Victorian age: Vol. NATE classic reading. NATE.
Duffy, Carol Ann. (1999). The world’s wife: poems. Picador.
Duffy, Carol Ann. (2003). Overheard on a saltmarsh: poet’s favourite poems. Young Picador.
Duffy, Carol Ann. (2006a). Rapture. Picador.
Duffy, Carol Ann. (2006b). Selected poems. Penguin Books in association with Anvil Press Poetry.
Duffy, Carol Ann. (2008). Answering back: living poets reply to the poetry of the past. Picador.
Duffy, Carol Ann, & Stevenson, Alice. (2009). New and collected poems for children. Faber.
Dymoke, Sue. (2008). Edexcel AS English literature: Student book. Pearson.
Eliot, T. S. (1998). The Waste Land, Prufrock and other poems: Vol. Dover thrift editions. Dover.
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Eliot, T. S. (2004). The waste land and four quartets. BBC Audiobooks.
Eliot, T. S. (2007). Old possum’s book of practical cats. Proquest LLC. http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z101145317:
Eliot, T. S., & Richardson, Miranda. (2011). Old Possum’s book of practical cats. Faber and Faber.
English and Media Centre (London). (2010). Exploring poetry for AQA GCSE: EMC resources with DVD ; voice and character, relationships. English & Media Centre.
Foster, John L. (1986). Spaceways: an anthology of space poetry. Oxford University Press.
Foster, John L. (1998). Word whirls and other shape poems. Oxford University Press.
Fuller, John. (2002). The Oxford book of sonnets. Oxford University Press.
Gent, Robert P. (1996). Poems for the beekeeper. Five Leaves Publications.
Hardy, Thomas, & Willmott, Richard. (1992). Selected poems: Vol. Oxford student texts. Oxford University Press.
Harrison, Michael. (2001). A book of very short poems. Oxford University Press.
Harrison, Michael, & Stuart-Clark, Christopher. (2001a). The Oxford treasury of classic poems (2nd ed). Oxford University Press.
Harrison, Michael, & Stuart-Clark, Christopher. (2001b). The Oxford treasury of classic poems (2nd ed). Oxford University Press.
Harvey, Anne. (1995). He said, she said, they said: poetry in conversation. Puffin.
Heaney, Seamus. (1966). Death of a naturalist. Faber and Faber.
Heaney, Seamus. (2000). Beowulf: a new translation: Vol. Faber Penguin audiobooks. Penguin.
Heaney, Seamus. (2007). Beowulf: a new verse translation (Bilingual ed). Faber & Faber.
Heaney, Seamus, & Anon. (Beowulf and Judith). (2007). Beowulf. Proquest LLC. http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88- 2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:po:Z001145656
Heaney, Seamus, & Hughes, Ted. (1982). The rattle bag. Faber and Faber.
Henri, Adrian, McGough, Roger, & Patten, Brian. (1967). Penguin modern poets: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, 10: The Mersey sound. Penguin.
Hodges, Gabrielle Cliff, Keats, John, & National Association for the Teaching of English. (1998). Two poems by John Keats: Vol. NATE classic reading. NATE.
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Holub, Miroslav. (2006). Poems before and after: collected English translations (2nd expanded ed). Bloodaxe.
Hoyles, Asher, & Hoyles, Martin. (2002). Moving voices: black performance poetry. Hansib.
Kay, Jackie. (2007a). Darling: new and selected poems. Bloodaxe Books.
Kay, Jackie. (2007b). Red, cherry red. Bloomsbury.
Kay, Jackie, Procter, James, & Robinson, Gemma. (2012). Out of bounds: British black and Asian poets: Vol. Newcastle/Bloodaxe poetry series. Bloodaxe. http://le.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&pack age_service_id=5664471070002746&institutionId=2746&customerId=2745
Langer, Jennifer. (2005). The silver throat of the moon: writing in exile. Five Leaves.
Lear, Edward, & Jackson, Holbrook. (2001). The complete nonsense of Edward Lear: Vol. Faber children’s classics (New ed). Faber and Faber.
MacRae, Lindsay. (2000). How to avoid kissing your parents in public. Puffin Books.
Magee, Wes. (1991). Madtail, miniwhale and other shape poems. Puffin Books.
Markham, E. A. (1989). Hinterland: Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. Bloodaxe Books.
McGough, Roger. (1981). Strictly private: an anthology of poetry: Vol. Kestrel books. Penguin Books.
McGough, Roger. (1998). The ring of words: an anthology of poetry for children. Faber and Faber.
McGough, Roger. (2003). All the best: the selected poems of Roger McGough. Puffin Books.
McMillan, Ian, & Arts Council of England. (1998). I found this shirt: poems and prose from the centre. Carcanet. http://le.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&pack age_service_id=5662774600002746&institutionId=2746&customerId=2745
Mitchell, Adrian. (1993). The Orchard book of poems. Orchard.
Morgan, Edwin. (2000). New selected poems. Carcanet.
Moses, Brian. (2003). Are we nearly there yet? Pan Macmillan.
Motion, Andrew. (2002). Here to eternity: an anthology of poetry. Faber.
Neill, Heather, & Hughes, Siân. (1999). The TES book of young poets. Times Supplements Limited.
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Newman, Margaret. (2010). AQA anthology: Moon on the tides (conflict and relationships): Vol. Philip Allan literature guide (for GCSE). Philip Allan Updates.
Nicholls, Judith. (1993). Earthways, earthwise: poems on conservation. Oxford University Press.
Nichols, Grace. (2004). Paint me a poem: new poems inspired by paintings and sculptures in Tate. A & C Black.
Nichols, Grace. (2005). Everybody got a gift. A & C Black.
Noyes, Alfred, & Keeping, Charles. (1991). The highwayman. Oxford University Press.
O’Brien, Sean. (1998a). The firebox: poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945. Picador.
O’Brien, Sean. (1998b). The firebox: poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945. Picador.
O’Neill, Michael, & Mahoney, Charles. (2008). Romantic poetry: an annotated anthology: Vol. Blackwell annotated anthologies. Blackwell.
Oswald, Alice. (2006). The thunder mutters: 101 poems for the planet. Faber.
Oswald, Alice. (2011). Memorial: an excavation of the Iliad. Faber and Faber.
Owen, Gareth. (2002). The fox on the roundabout (New ed). Macmillan Children’s Books.
Peters, Andrew. (1999). Sheep don’t go to school: mad and magical children's poetry. Bloodaxe Books.
Protherough, Robert, & Clare, John. (2005). Poems by John Clare: Vol. NATE classic reading. NATE.
Reflections. (2010). Oxford University Press.
Rice, John. (2002). Scottish poems. Macmillan Children’s Books.
Riordan, Maurice, & Burnell, Jocelyn Bell. (2008). Darkmatter: poems of space. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Scannell, Vernon. (2001). The very best of ... Vernon Scannell: a book of poems. Macmillans Children’s Books.
Sheers, Owen. (2005). Skirrid Hill. Seren.
Sissay, Lemn. (1998). The fire people: a collection of contemporary Black British poets. Payback Press.
Sorescu, Marin, & Hughes, Ted. (1987). The biggest egg in the world. Bloodaxe Books.
Stallworthy, Jon, & Imperial War Museum. (2002). Anthem for doomed youth: twelve soldier poets of the First World War. Constable, published in association with the Imperial War Museum.
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Styles, Morag. (1984). I like that stuff: poems from many cultures. Cambridge University Press.
Styles, Morag, & Cook, Helen. (1990). Ink-slinger: poems about putting words on paper. A & C Black.
Sweeney, Matthew. (2001). The new Faber book of children’s verse. Faber and Faber.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, & Keeping, Charles. (1989). The Lady of Shalott. Oxford University Press.
The AQA Digital Anthology. (n.d.). http://store.aqa.org.uk/presentation/english/digital-anthology-demo/index.html
The Poetry Station | Poems to view on video. (n.d.). http://poetrystation.org.uk/
Thomas, Edward, & Thomas, R. S. (1998). Selected poems ([Reset ed.]). Faber and Faber.
Turner, Brian. (2007). Here, bullet. Bloodaxe Books.
Wain, John. (1990). The Oxford anthology of English poetry: Vol. 2: Blake to Heaney (New ed). Oxford University Press.
Waters, Fiona. (2001). Poetry collection: 3: Poems: then and now. Evans.
Wilson, Raymond. (1987). Nine o’clock bell: poems about school. Puffin.
Women’s Poetry & Verse | First World War Poetry Digital Archive. (n.d.). http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/women
Zephaniah, Benjamin. (1995). Talking turkeys. Puffin.
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