A Level Edexcel Poems of the Decade Essays -Read ‘Cooking with Blood’ by France and re-read ‘Eat Me’ by Agbabi. Compare the methods both poets use to explore human desire. (A*) -Read ‘Sonnet’ by Emma Jones and re-read ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ by Simon Armitage. Compare the methods both poets use to explore change. (A) -Read ‘A Miracle for Breakfast’ by Elizabeth Bishop and re-read ‘Eat Me’ by Agbabi. Compare the methods both poets use to explore food. (A) This is the one sampled. -Read ‘IVF’ by Macphee and re-read ‘Out of the Bag’ by Seamus Heaney. Compare the methods both poets use to explore attitudes to birth and medicine. (B) includes WWW and EBI comments. On my shop, see also my Edexcel A Level Poems of the Decade Anthology resource for a fully analysed anthology.

Edexcel A Level Poems of the Decade Anthology Thorough analysis of all the Poems of the Decade set by Edexcel, including the titles, outlining the basic narrative, the form and analysis of specific quotes. Poems include: ‘Eat Me’ (‘Eat’) - Agbabi ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ (‘Chainsaw’) - Armitage ‘Material’ (‘Material’) - Barber ‘History’ (‘History’) - Burnside ‘An Easy Passage’ (‘Passage’) - Copus ‘The Deliverer’ (‘Deliverer’) - Doshi ‘The Lammas Hireling’ (‘Hireling’) – Duhig ‘To My Nine-Year-Old Self’ (‘Self’) - Dunmore ‘A Minor Role’ (‘Role’) - Fanthrope ‘The Gun’ (‘Gun’) - Feaver ‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ (‘Distances’) - Flynn ‘Giuseppe’ (‘Giuseppe’) - Ford ‘Out of the Bag’ (‘Bag’) - Heaney ‘Effects’ (‘Effects’) - Jenkins ‘Genetics’ (‘Genetics’) - Morrissey ‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ (‘Man’) - Motion ‘Look we have a Coming to Dover!’ (‘Dover!’) - Nagra ‘Please Hold’ (‘Hold’) – O’Driscoll ‘On Her Blindness’ (‘Blindness’) - Thorpe ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ (‘Urn’) – Turnbull On my shop, see also my Edexcel A Level Poems of the Decade Essays.