KS4 Poems | Resources for English teachers

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') (9) New resource!

Agard, John ('Flag') (5)

Alvi, Moniza (2)

An introduction to poetry (3)

Analysing poetry (15)

Angelou, Maya (1)

Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Love and relationships (21)

Anthology poetry for AQA (2015 onwards) Power and conflict (33)

Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Conflict (16)

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

Anthology poetry for Edexcel (2015 onwards) Time and Place (17) 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)

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

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (5)

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth ('Sonnet 43') (7) New resource!

Bhatt, Sujata (1)

Blake, William (14)

Blake, William ('London') (9)

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau (1)

Browning, Robert (17)

Browning, Robert ('My Last Duchess') (8)

Byron, George Gordon (1)

Carson, Ciaran (1)

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

Clare, John (5)

Clarke, Gillian (10)

Clarke, Gillian ('Cold Knap Lake') (5) New resource!

Duffy, Carol Ann (27)

Duffy, Carol Ann - Mean Time (5)

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

Elizabethan poetry (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') (8)

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) 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)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe ('Ozymandias') (12) New resource!

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) New resource!

Whitman, Walt (4)

Wilde, Oscar (1)

Wordsworth, William (7)

Wordsworth, William ('Extract from The Prelude') (10) New resource!

World War I poetry (48)

Writing poetry (6)

Yeats, W.B. (4)

Zephaniah, Benjamin (1)

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