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 »
"poetry does not incite violence! Get a grip!"
"A scandal!"
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"I have taught the poem to students in defiance of the ban and asked them if it should be banned. They thought the decision of AQA was stupid and patronising to them"
"This petition makes an important point about the anti-intellectual decision making process adopted for curricular planning."
"political correctness has become ridiculous, not to say extremely irritating and insulting since its use so often implies the recipient is incapable of autonomous judgement"
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"This is exactly the sort of reactionary intellectual censorship that insults everyone by assuming that young readers have no sense of proportion, no capacity to grasp the distinction between reality and fabrication. Shameful and cowardly."
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"And how about addressing issues that affect the children who'll read the poem?"
"Also restore Coleridge to the Curriculum"
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"Librorum prohibitorum"
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"This is an important poem that deals with the ennui of adolescence and could lead to fruitful discussion about the triggers to violence."
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