Literature in EnglishCode 2010
Poetry
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, 15 poems: Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’; Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’; William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’; Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’; Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’; Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’; Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’; Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’; Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’; Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’; Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’; Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’; Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’; William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’; Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’
- Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3, 15 poems: Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’; Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’; Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’; Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’; Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’; Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’; Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’; W H Auden, ‘The Capital’; Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’; Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’; Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’; Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’; Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’; Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’; George Szirtes, ‘Song’
- Kumukanda, Kayo Chingonyi, 15 poems: The Colour of James Brown’s Scream; Fisherman’s Song; Broomhall; Some Bright Elegance; The N Word (I.); Curfew; Waves; Kumukanda; A Proud Blemish; Grief; Andrews Corner; Kung’anda; ‘Round Midnight; Baltic Mill; This poem contains gull song