Hands Off Poetry!
HANDS OFF POETRY!We strongly oppose the censoring of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure by the examination board AQA, which has removed it from its anthology because it deals with the conten... continue reading »
"Considering the sub-literary quality of some GCSE material, this poem stands as a ringing endorsement of the need for contemporary work to continue to interrogate the 'classics'."
"If you ban this you might as well ban imagination."
"'Education For Leisure' goes but 'Salome' stays? 'Hitcher' stays? 'The Laboratory' stays? Show me the child who committed a violent act because of 'Education for Leisure' and not inadequate role models and a lack of moral guidance and I'll happily remove "
"This invidious form of censorship is insulting both to the young people studying the curriculum and to the writers being studied. It is also potentially dangerous, art must address radical issues if it is not to degenerate into a banal, disgusted of Tunbr"
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"Nuffield College, University of Oxford"
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"Not only unconscionable, it's idiotic. How odd that people lacking basic poetry reading skills are in a position to control what gets read."
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"it's almost a compliment to the power of poetry - except that it's not. it's just stupid."
