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 »
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"If poetry isn't free, nothing is!"
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"The students like the poem. Take the picture of the knife away"
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"Book burning in the UK. I never thought I would see the day."
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"Poetry and politics rarely mix well. The decision to remove this poem is paternalistic and rests on the idea that young people are impressionable morons who need to be protected from themselves."
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"A wonderful poem. Students should not be denied access to it and to the ideas/feelings/issues/language it explores. (English teacher for 35 years, Examiner for 27)."
"This is a powerful poem which deals with aspects of alienation and violence in an imaginative and accessible way. Trust young people. Use your common sense. Is it likely that anyone reading this poem would think knife crime a good thing?"
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"They're probably worried about what the Sun or the Mail might say."
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