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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"I loved this poem at school. It never affected me. It shouldn't have been banned."
"Closed minds are more dangerous than poets, anyday."
"Shouldn't we be engaging with the less pleasant aspects of our society, not pretending they don't exist?"
"Do not censure poetry!!"
"I am currently in year 11 and studying for my GCSE's i think it is outrageous that this poem has been banned as i feel it is a very powerful and emotional poem, it even reduced me to tears the first time i read it and it just simply highlights what is wro"
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"I wholeheartedly agree that this is PC gone mad"
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"Please review this decision by reading the poem and placing it in its proper context."
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"Next time the met is investigting a stabbing I am sure they'll be looking for avid poetry readers!"
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"education,education, education!"
"This is a gross error of judgment. The point of the poem is to let us into the mind of the potential killer. It is the business of literature to understand and give voice to the difficult. Students hear voices much cruder than this and see fully graphic v"
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