As promised, I have put the links below to my copy of 'Poems of the Decade' and the teacher guidance notes from the exam board. Please use both of these resources as a starting point to build on your own knowledge of the poems.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiSnRab3g5alI2R1k/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByjTQpSbakfiRXFvcGhTeTlxRGs/view?usp=sharing
Below is the list of poems you are required to study from the collection:
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Poem
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Poet
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Eat Me
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Patience Agbabi
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Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass
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Simon Armitage
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Material
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Ros Barber
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Inheritance
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Eavan Boland
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A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple
of Learning
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Sue Boyle
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History
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John Burnside
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The War Correspondent
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Ciaran Carson
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An Easy Passage
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Julia Copus
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The Deliverer
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Tishani Doshi
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The Map Woman
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Carol Ann Duffy
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The Lammas Hireling
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Ian Duhig
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To My Nine-Year-Old Self
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Helen Dunmore
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A Minor Role
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U A Fanthorpe
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The Gun
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Vicki Feaver
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The Furthest Distances I’ve
Travelled
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Leontia Flynn
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Giuseppe
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Roderick Ford
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Out of the Bag
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Seamus Heaney
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Effects
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Alan Jenkins
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The Fox in the National Museum of
Wales
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Robert Minhinnick
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Genetics
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Sinéad Morrissey
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From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man
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Andrew Motion
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Daljit Nagra
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Fantasia on a Theme of James
Wright
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Sean O’Brien
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Please Hold
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Ciaran O’Driscoll
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You, Shiva, and My Mum
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Ruth Padel
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Song
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George Szirtes
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On Her Blindness
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Adam Thorpe
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Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
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Tim Turnbull
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Your mock exam is on Monday 28th November at 9am.
Paper 1 - 'A Streetcar Named Desire' 1hr15mins
Paper 3 - unseen poetry and 'Poems of the Decade' 1hr15mins
There will be a mock exam revision session this Thursday at 3.45 in room L108. I will upload your 'speed dating' poems this week - watch this space.
Miss Ryall
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