Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the January exams so don’t have any recommendations specific to them. These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer. Poems of the Decade Revision is an important use of time for students studying the English Literature A Level or AS Level provided by Edexcel; a selection from the anthology are part of the prescribed texts meaning that they may be part of the final exam. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. It includes poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.

The selected poems cover a wide range of styles and subject matter, opening up plenty of material for discussion.The Forward Prizes for Poetry have established themselves as central to the literary landscape of modern Britain. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. For AS Level students, you will be given two questions to pick from, and each will specify a poem to be used. A selection of 20 of these poems has been chosen by Edexcel for the Poetry paper of the A Level specification.

From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. Poems of the Decade brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. They have been awarded annually since 1992 for the Best Collection, Best First Collection and Best Single Poem published in Britain and Ireland, and the roster of winning, shortlisted and highly commended poets regularly juxtaposes familiar canonical names with fresh voices. Poems of the Decade 2011—2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry.Poems of the Decade is a celebration of the last ten years of poetry published in the UK and Ireland. We recommend talking to your teacher / educational establishment to confirm the specific details of the exact course you are studying. It is often profitable to make connections between them, but in Edexcel Paper 3, students are asked to compare a previously unseen poem with one from Poems of the Decade . Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. A number of poems were removed from the prescribed list in 2017 for AS and A Level, meaning that you will not be examined on these poems.

It is the perfect introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry: works that speak of violence, danger and fear, of love and all that opposes love, in forms of language broken and reshaped by the need to communicate what it is to be alive now, here. It is then up to you to decide on another poem to use from the prescribed anthology, meaning that it is important to be confident on all the set poems and the different ways they can link to each other.You will have to pick one of two specified questions, each of which will have one poem that is part of this collection and one unseen poem. However, they act as a great option to use for practice essays and general Poems of the Decade revision, with analysis available to support your learning. If you look at our previous tips for other exams though it’s all quite similar in terms of the approach and potential topics. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.