Character and VoiceContemporary PoetryThe Clown Punk by Simon Armitage
Checking Out Me History by John Agard
Horse Whisperer by Andrew Forster
Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy
Singh Song! by Daljit Nagrah
Brendon Gallacher by Jackie Kay
Give by Simon Armitage
Les Grands Seigneurs by Dorothy MolloyThe Literary HeritageOzymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
The River God by Stevie Smith
The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
Casehistory: Alison (head injury) by U.A. Thanthorpe
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by John BetjemanPlaceContemporary PoetryThe Blackbird of Glanmore by Seamus Heaney
A Vision by Simon Armitage
The Moment by Margaret Atwood
Cold Knap Lake by Gillian Clarke
Price We Pay For The Sun by Grace Nichols
Neighbours by Gillian Clarke
Crossing the Loch by Kathleen Jamie
Hard Water by Jean SpracklandThe Literary HeritageLondon by William Blake
Extract from The Prelude by William Wordsworth
The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B. Yeats
Spellbound by Emily Brontë
Below the Green Corrie by Norman MacCraig
Storm in the Black Forest by D.H. Lawrence
Wind by Ted HughesConflictContemporary PoetryFlag by John Agard
Extract from Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage
Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers
The Yellow Palm by Robert Minhinnick
The Right Word by Imtiaz Dhaker
At the Border, 1979 by Choman Hardi
Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
Poppies by Jane WeirThe Literary HeritageFutility by Wilfred Owen
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole
'Come On, Come Back' by Stevie Smith
next to of course god america i by E. E. Cummings
Hawk Roosting by Ted HughesRelationshipsContemporary PoetryThe Manhunt by Simon Armitage
Hour by Carol Ann Duffy
In Paris with You by James Fenton
Quickdraw by Carol Ann Duffy
Ghazal by Mimi Khalvati
Brothers by Andrew Forster
Praise Song for My Mother by Grace Nichols
Harmonium by Simon ArmitageThe Literary HeritageSonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew
Sister Maude by Christina Rossetti
Nettles by Vernon Scannell
Born Yesterday by Philip Larkin