KS4 Poems | Resources for English teachers

Our KS4 poetry library is stuffed to the rafters with inspiring and innovative poetry resources. Find worksheets and activities for all the GCSE anthologies, unseen poems and many classic poems below!

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Achebe, Chinua (3)

Afrika, Tatamkulu (2)

Agard, John ('Checking Out Me History') (10)

Agard, John ('Flag') (5)

Alvi, Moniza (2)

An introduction to poetry (3)

Analysing poetry (14)

Angelou, Maya (1)

Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Love and relationships (23)

Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Power and conflict (46)

Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Conflict (24)

Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Relationships (25)

Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Time and Place (25)

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)

Armitage, Simon ('The Manhunt') (7)

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (4)

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth ('Sonnet 43') (7)

Bhatt, Sujata (1)

Blake, William (15)

Blake, William ('London') (11)

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau (1)

Browning, Robert (17)

Browning, Robert ('My Last Duchess') (9)

Byron, George Gordon (1)

Carson, Ciaran (1)

Carson, Ciaran ('Belfast Confetti') (6)

Clare, John (5)

Clarke, Gillian (10)

Clarke, Gillian ('Cold Knap Lake') (5)

Duffy, Carol Ann (27)

Duffy, Carol Ann - Mean Time (5)

Duffy, Carol Ann - The World's Wife (2)

Elizabethan poetry (2)

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (3)

Frost, Robert (2)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1)

Hardy, Thomas (3)

Heaney, Seamus (16)

Herrick, Robert (2)

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (4)

Housman, A.E. (2)

Hughes, Langston (1)

Hughes, Ted (18)

Hughes, Ted ('Bayonet Charge') (9)

Hughes, Ted ('Hawk Roosting') (7)

Lovelace, Richard (1)

Marvell, Andrew (7)

Mew, Charlotte ('The Farmer's Bride') (1)

Milton, John (1)

Nagra, Daljit (1)

Nagra, Daljit ('Singh Song!') (6)

Nichols, Grace (6)

Osundare, Niyi (3)

Performing poetry (1)

Pilkington, Laetitia (1)

Poetry activities for Syntex (1)

Poetry basics (4)

Pre 1914 Poetry (1)

Rossetti, Christina (4)

Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke (1)

Sheers, Owen (2)

Sheers, Owen ('Mametz Wood') (7)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe ('Ozymandias') (14)

Simpson, Louis (1)

Tennyson, Alfred (7)

Tennyson, Alfred ('The Charge of the Light Brigade') (8)

Thomas, Edward (2)

Tichborne, Charles (1)

Tony Harrison (3)

Unseen poetry (24)

Voices & readings - introducing poetry (2)

Weir, Jane ('Poppies') (6)

Whitman, Walt (4)

Wilde, Oscar (1)

Wordsworth, William (7)

Wordsworth, William ('Extract from The Prelude') (12)

World War I poetry (48)

Writing poetry (6)

Yeats, W.B. (4)

Zephaniah, Benjamin (1)

Hand-picked resources

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Hand-picked resources

Personal conflict in 'Checking Out Me History' and 'Kamikaze'

Key quotations about seasons

Key quotations about the presentation of journeys

Love and relationships quiz cards

Comparing power in 'Ozymandias' and 'My Last Duchess'

Comparing anger in 'London' and 'Checking Out Me History'