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Key Stage 4 Poetry resources

Our KS4 poetry library is stuffed to the rafters with inspiring and innovative poetry resources. If you're after AQA anthology resources and you can't find what you need in our libraries then the digital anthology is full of resources, all created by Teachit contributors. (You'll need your AQA Digital Anthology password in order to log in.)

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Achebe, Chinua (3)
Afrika, Tatamkulu (2)
Agard, John ('Checking Out Me History') (8)  New resource!
Agard, John ('Flag') (5)  New resource!
Alvi, Moniza (2)
An introduction to poetry (3)
Analysing poetry (15)
Angelou, Maya (1)
Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Love and relationships (20)  New resource!
Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Power and conflict (35)
Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Conflict (16)
Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Relationships (25)
Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Time and Place (15)  New resource!
Anthology poetry for Edexcel IGCSE English Literature (2016) (3)
Anthology poetry for OCR (2015 onwards) (13)
Anthology poetry for WJEC Eduqas (2015 onwards) (30)
Armitage, Simon (11)  New resource!
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (5)
Bhatt, Sujata (1)
Blake, William (14)
Blake, William ('London') (4)  New resource!
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau (1)
Browning, Robert (18)
Browning, Robert ('My Last Duchess') (8)
Byron, George Gordon (1)
Carson, Ciaran (1)
Carson, Ciaran ('Belfast Confetti') (6)  New resource!
Clare, John (5)
Clarke, Gillian (10)
Clarke, Gillian ('Cold Knap Lake') (1)  New resource!
Collins, William (1)
Comparing poems (16)  New resource!
Dharker, Imtiaz (6)
Drayton, Michael (1)
Duffy, Carol Ann (27)  New resource!
Duffy, Carol Ann - Mean Time (5)
Duffy, Carol Ann - The World's Wife (2)
Elizabethan poetry (1)
Ezekiel, Nissim (7)
Fanthorpe, U.A. (1)
Farrell, Fiona (1)
Fell, Alison (1)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (3)
Frost, Robert (1)
Goldsmith, Oliver (1)
Hardy, Thomas (3)
Heaney, Seamus (15)
Herrick, Robert (2)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (4)
Housman, A.E. (2)
Hughes, Langston (1)
Hughes, Ted (18)
Hughes, Ted ('Bayonet Charge') (7)  New resource!
Hughes, Ted ('Hawk Roosting') (5)
Jonson, Ben (3)
Keats, John (2)
Larkin, Philip (3)
Laskey, Michael (1)
Lawrence, D.H. (1)
Levertov, Denise (3)
Levy, Amy (1)
Lovelace, Richard (1)
Marvell, Andrew (7)
Milton, John (1)
Nagra, Daljit (1)
Nagra, Daljit ('Singh Song!') (3)  New resource!
Nichols, Grace (6)
Osundare, Niyi (3)
Performing poetry (1)
Pilkington, Laetitia (1)
Poetry basics (3)
Pre 1914 Poetry (1)
Rossetti, Christina (4)
Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke (1)
Sheers, Owen (2)
Sheers, Owen ('Mametz Wood') (7)  New resource!
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (3)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe ('Ozymandias') (10)
Simpson, Louis (1)
Tennyson, Alfred (7)
Tennyson, Alfred ('The Charge of the Light Brigade') (8)  New resource!
Thomas, Edward (2)
Tichborne, Charles (1)
Tony Harrison (3)
Unseen poetry (24)
Voices & readings - introducing poetry (2)
Weir, Jane ('Poppies') (4)
Whitman, Walt (4)
Wilde, Oscar (1)
Wordsworth, William (7)
Wordsworth, William ('Extract from The Prelude') (3)  New resource!
World War I poetry (48)
Writing poetry (5)
Yeats, W.B. (4)
Zephaniah, Benjamin (1)

Hand-picked resources

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Have a look at some of our hand-picked resources for KS4 Poetry.

Connecting ‘Postcard from a Travel Snob’ with other poems in the collection

Researching visions of London

Pre-reading activities

First impressions: form and structure

First impressions

Exploring themes and issues

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