From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 3, the following 15 poems:
Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’
Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’
Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’
Boey King Cheng, ‘The Planners’
Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’
Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’
Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Mid-Term Break’
Mervyn Morris, ‘Little Boy Crying’
Norman Nicholson, ‘Rising Five’
Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’
Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 29’
Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’
Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving But Drowning’
William Wordsworth, ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’
These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 1:
The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press). Poems printed in the paper will be as printed in this text.
From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 4, the following 15 poems:
Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’
Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’
A R D Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’
James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’
Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’
Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’
Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’
Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’
Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’
Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’
Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’
Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’
Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’
These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 2:
The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press). Poems printed in the paper will be as printed in this text.
Carol Ann Duffy, the following 15 poems:
‘Head of English’ ‘War Photographer’
‘Recognition’ ‘Stealing’
‘Foreign’ ‘Originally’
‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ ‘We Remember Your Childhood Well’
‘The Darling Letters’ ‘In Your Mind’
‘The Good Teachers’ ‘Valentine’
‘A Child’s Sleep’ ‘Death of a Teacher’
‘Prayer’
You can find these poems in New Selected Poems 1984 – 2004, by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador). Poems printed in the paper will be printed as in this text.
