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Spark something powerful

Inspirational new texts and poetry for GCSE English Literature.

Poetry

We’ve added a third cluster of poems to our poetry anthology for Paper 2 Section B.

Students study one of these poetry clusters:

  • Love and relationships
  • Power and conflict
  • Worlds and lives*

*first teaching from September 2023 and first exams in summer 2025.

GCSE English Literature

Inspirational new texts and poetry

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