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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"The petition is a bit hard on AQA, but this is a first class poem by a poet recognised as preeminent by her Laureatship and it is misguided and unperceptive of its meaning to remove it from the syllabus"
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"Anyone who cares about literature should support this petition."
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"This poem hardly glamourises knife crime or encourages it in any way, aren't young people even allowed to know that violence exists in the world any more?"
"Stop this paranoid censorship!"
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"When I first realised that the poem had been removed without any discussion with teachers, I engaged in a series of emails with my local, MP, Ian Taylor. Whilst I got a charming reply, I did not feel that he understood the full implications of what had ha"
"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."
"Addressing a subject in writing does not mean endorsing it. When will people learn that by repressing a subject it will only leap out in volatile ways?"
"If these people want to reduce knife crime this poem is an ideal starting-point for discussing it and why it happens and doesn't need to. Do these guys want to make knife culture cool? That's exactly what they just did."
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"Ban this and you must ban King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, all of Homer,....etc etc"
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"Poetry doesn't tell children what to think, it shows them HOW to think."
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"Totally disagree with this being taken off!!! As a 15 year old girl studying for her GCSE's, after reading the poem, it is certainly one of the best in the Anthology and brings to light the issues we are facing in our present climate. Should be brought ba"
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