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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"This is an asinine and contemptible piece of arbitrary censorship. The point has been well made that Romeo and Juliet is much more violent."
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"The poem does NOT 'glorify knife crime'!"
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"I think this kind of censorship is very dangerous and smacks of right wing panic!"
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"Censorship is the pathway to mediocrity."
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"A poem of this quality opens rather than answers questions and is therefore of wide relevance. Those wishing to pin particular labels such as it 'glorifies knife crime' may be missing alternative readings, which others should be free to decide for themsel"
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"I found this the most interesting poem in the GCSE Anthology. I wrote my 'lit' coursework on it and got an A.. It's a shame people feel that they have to 'protect young minds' from excellent poetry."
