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 »
"I concur entirely with the Hands Off Poetry Petition. I am a published poet, and creative writing tutor, and am appalled at this curtailing of freedoms that should be respected and upheld, not destroyed"
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"this ban is so absurd it's hard to believe it's actually happening"
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"laughable, reactionary, cowardly"
"Luckily, I can still teach this poem in Scotland!"
""...censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted." - Jonathon Green"
"As a former AQA English Literature examiner I deplore this act of academic and literary vandalism. If poetry can't ask questions of morality and human worth, what can? Reinstate this poem at once - and keep your neck out of anything smacking of censorship"
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"It is not a matter of pride to have to sign a petition like this, but it is a necessity"
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"The poem does not 'glorify' anything: it attempts to understand violence, not condone it. More importantly, it is an excellent poem by the present Laureate."
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"this kind of censorship is very wrong, we live in a democracy!"
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