A Level English - Edexcel Modern Poetry

For the ‘Forward Poems of the Decade’ cluster - detailed, high-level analysis of the Edexcel English Literature Poetry Culture for AS and A level, containing all 20 poems.

The poems analysed are:

• Fanthorpe’s ‘A Minor Role’
• Copus’ ‘An Easy Passage’
• Armitage’s ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’
• Agbabi’s ‘Eat Me’
• Jenkins’ ‘Effects’
• Motion’s ‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’
• Morrissey’s ‘Genetics’
• Ford’s ‘Giuseppe’
• Burnside’s ‘History’
• Nagra’s ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’
• Barber’s ‘Material’
• Turnbull’s ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’
• Thorpe’s ‘On Her Blindness’
• Heaney’s ‘Out of the Bag’
• O’Driscoll’s ‘Please Hold’
• Doshi’s ‘The Deliverer’
• Flynn’s ‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’
• Feaver’s ‘The Gun’
• Duhig’s ‘The Lammas Hireling’
• Dunmore’s ‘To My Nine-Year-Old Self’

Also includes a comparison table on particularly compatible poem combinations, with introductions and A* level sample paragraphs