For those that are studying English Literature at AS level on the Pearson Edexcel board of examiners, here is a list of the required poems analysed. This includes all the selected poems, mentioned in Appendix 4 of the GCE Level 3 Advanced Subsidary in English Literature (8ET0). Please feel free to skip to the poem most relevant to you. If you want a poem to be analysed that you cannot find on the site too, please feel free to contact us.
Edexcel AS Level (8ET0) English Literature
- Eat Me Patience by Agbabi (still analysing)
- Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass by Simon Armitage (still analysing)
- Material by Ross Barber
- History by John Burnside (still analysing)
- An Easy Passage by Julia Copus
- The Deliverer by Tishani Doshi
- The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig
- To My Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore
- A Minor Role by U.A. Fanthorpe
- The Gun by Vicki Feaver
- The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled by Leontia Flynn
- Giuseppe by Roderick Ford
- Out of the Bag by Seamus Heaney (still analysing)
- Effects by Alan Jenkins
- Genetics by Sinéad Morrissey
- From the Journal of a Disappointed Man by Andrew Motion (still analysing)
- Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
- Please Hold by Ciaran O’Driscoll
- On Her Blindness by Adam Thorpe (still analysing)
- Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn by Tim Turnbull
