EDUQAS has made some major changes to the GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. These updates are designed to give students a more diverse, inclusive, and representative selection of literature.

🧠 What’s the aim?
The goal is to offer a better cultural and social balance—with more poems by women and a broader representation of voices from around the world.

✅ Key Change: Fewer Poems to Learn!

The number of poems you need to study has been reduced from 18 to 15.
Less to memorise = more time to master your analysis. (Phew!)

📖 New Anthology Poem List

Here are the poems you’ll need to know going forward:

• The Schoolboy – William Blake

• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth

• Sonnet 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Cousin Kate – Christina Rossetti

• Drummer Hodge – Thomas Hardy

• I Shall Return – Claude McKay

• Disabled – Wilfred Owen

• Decomposition – Zulfikar Ghose

• Catrin – Gillian Clarke

• Kamikaze – Beatrice Garland

• Blackberry Picking – Seamus Heaney

• War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy

• Dusting the Phone – Jackie Kay

• Remains – Simon Armitage

• Origin Story – Eve L. Ewing

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