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Weblinks and videos for use with 8538 – Poems of the Decade: Mind Maps with Activities for A Level Edexcel

A Level only: Further Reading

1: Eat Me by Patience Agbabi

• The Map-Woman – Carol Ann Duffy (theme)
• Marigolds – Vicki Feaver (theme)

2: Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass by Simon Armitage

• A Brief History of Hostility – Jamaal May (voice)
• The Maenads – Ursula K Le Guin (theme)

3: Material by Ros Barber

• The Fox in the National Museum of Wales – Robert Minhinnick (theme)
• A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning – Sue Boyle (attitude)

4: History by John Burnside

• Inheritance – Eavan Boland (structure)
• Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold (theme)

5: An Easy Passage by Julia Copus

• The Sacred – Stephen Dunn (theme)
• A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning – Sue Boyle (voice)

6: The Deliverer by Tishani Doshi

• The War Correspondent – Ciaran Carson (theme)
• You, Shiva and My Mum – Ruth Padel (attitude) (page no longer working)

7: The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig

• Snake – D H Lawrence (attitude)
• The Allansford Pursuit – Robert Graves (theme)

8: To My Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore

• Inheritance – Eavan Boland (theme)
• Marigolds – Vicki Feaver (attitude)

9: A Minor Role by U A Fanthorpe

• Alone – Maya Angelou (attitude)
• Programme – Helen Farish (theme)

10: The Gun by Vicki Feaver

• Marigolds – Vicki Feaver (attitude)
• A Brief History of Hostility – Jamaal May (theme)

11: The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled by Leontia Flynn

• The Map-Woman – Carol Ann Duffy (theme)
• Where I Came From – Ruth Stone (attitude)

12: Giuseppe by Roderick Ford

• Elvis the Performing Octopus – Polly Clark (attitude)
• Dying – Tara Bergin (theme)

13: Out of the Bag by Seamus Heaney

• You, Shiva and My Mum – Ruth Padel (structure) (page no longer working)
• Poetry – Pablo Neruda (attitude)

14: Effects by Alan Jenkins

• ECT – Alan Jenkins (theme)
• Inheritance – Eavan Boland (attitude)

15: Genetics by Sinéad Morrissey

• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas (form)
• Song – George Szirtes (structure)

16: From the Journal of a Disappointed Man by Andrew Motion

• Men as Friends – Robin Becker (theme)
• My Sad Self – Allen Ginsberg (theme)

17: Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

• You, Shiva and My Mum – Ruth Padel (attitude)
• The Map-Woman – Carol Ann Duffy (theme)

18: Please Hold by Ciaran O’Driscoll

• Text Messages – Jordan Davis (attitude)
• The Radio Animals – Matthea Harvey (theme)

19: On Her Blindness by Adam Thorpe

• On His Blindness – John Milton (theme)
• Song – George Szirtes (structure)

20: Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn by Tim Turnbull

• Ode on a Grecian Urn – John Keats (form)
• The Fox in the National Museum of Wales – Robert Minhinnick (structure)