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People and places: poetry anthology
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OXFORD AQA INTERNATIONAL GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
PEOPLE AND PLACES: POETRY ANTHOLOGY
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CONTENTS
WILLIAM BLAKE
LONDON4
GEORGE ELIOT
IN A LONDON DRAWING ROOM
5
THOMAS HARDY
AT CASTLE BOTEREL
6
ROBERT FROST
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
8
WILFRED OWEN
FUTILITY9
TED HUGHES
WIND10
SEAMUS HEANEY
STORM ON THE ISLAND
11
NORMAN MCCAIG
BELOW THE GREEN CORRIE
12
MARY OLIVER
THE JOURNEY
13
ALICE WALKER
POEM AT THIRTY-NINE
15
JO SHAPCOTT
THE GREAT STORM
17
KIM CHENG BOEY
THE PLANNERS
18
GRACE NICHOLS
HURRICANE HITS ENGLAND
19
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER
HOMELAND21
IMTIAZ DHARKAR
BLESSING22
MARGARET ATWOOD
THE MOMENT
23
ELIZABETH BREWSTER
WHERE I COME FROM
24
OWEN SHEERS
WINTER SWANS
25
MIROSLAV HOLUB
THE DOOR
26
ESTHER MORGAN
THIS MORNING
27
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost from the book THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward
Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1916. 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1944 by Robert Frost.
Used by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes Faber and Faber Ltd.
Seamus Heaney, ‘Storm on the Island’, Faber and Faber, 1966
Norman McCaig, ‘Below the Green Corrie’, Birlinn Ltd, 2009.
“The Journey” from DREAM WORK, copyright © 1986 by Mary Oliver. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic,
Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
Alice Walker, ‘Poem and Thirty-Nine’. Reprinted by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc.
Jo Shapcott, ‘The Great Storm’, Faber and Faber, 1987
Kim Cheng Boey, ‘The Planners’, Time Books International.
Hurricane hits England by Grace Nichols from Sunris, Virago, 1996. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown
Ltd. London on behalf of Grace Nichols.
Sophia de Mello Breyner, ‘Homeland’ from Log Book: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press Ltd.
Imtiaz Dharker, ‘Blessing’, Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of Margaret Atwood © Margaret
Atwood 1995
Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’, Oberon Books, 2004. By kind permission of Oberon Books Ltd.
‘Winter Swans’ from Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers. Published by Poetry Wales Press, 2005. Copyright © Owen
Sheers. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London
W11 1JN.
‘The Door’ by Miroslav Holub from Poems Before & After: Collected English, Translations, trans. Ian & Jarmila
Milner et al. (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)
‘This Morning’ by Esther Morgan from Grace (Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
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INTERNATIONAL
GCSE
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Short stories anthology
For exams in June 2018 onwards
OXFORD AQA INTERNATIONAL GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
PEOPLE AND PLACES: POETRY ANTHOLOGY
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including
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CONTENTS
V. S. PRITCHETT
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT
4
TED HUGHES
THE RAIN HORSE
AHDAF SOUEIF
SANDPIPER17
GRAHAM GREENE
THE DESTRUCTORS
24
JHUMPA LAHIRI
A REAL DURWAN
37
DORIS LESSING
THROUGH THE TUNNEL
45
JACKIE KAY
MRS VADNIE MARLENE SEVRON
52
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From Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett. Copyright © 1990 by V. S. Pritchett.
Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
The Rain Horse by Ted Hughes, published Faber and Faber Ltd.
Sandpiper by Ahdaf Soueif. Copyright © Ahdaf Soueif 1994, used by permission of
The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
The Destructors by Graham Greene from Complete Short Stories, published Penguin Classics.
Jhumpa Lahiri, A Real Durwan, 2000, reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.
Doris Lessing, Through the Tunnel © 2007, reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.
Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevron from REALITY, REALITY by Jackie Kay. Copyright © Jackie Kay 2012,
used by permission of The Wyle Agency (UK) Limited.
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