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 »
"Free speech, freedom for artists and children to be exposed to the arts!!!"
"Ignorance is not bliss"
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"How can we learn how to tackle the difficult situations in life if we can't even face them in literature?"
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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."
"Seems odd to remove from the syllabus a poem that may well stimulate discussion and thinking about the meaning and effects of knife crime."
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"Stop being led by 'the media'!"
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"Organiser/Bath Poetry Cafe"
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"If three complaints are enough to ban a poem, should not hundreds of names on a petition count for something?"
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"freedom of speech"
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"Banning poetry? What next? Banning thoughts?"
"the curriculum should not be censored. I was very shocked at some of the things I read for examinations in school (A High Wind in Jamaica, Lord of the Flies, to name only two novels, and many poems) - I was then and always have been grateful that such boo"
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