Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology

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42 My mother’s kitchen I will inherit my mother’s kitchen. Her glasses, some tall and lean, others short and fat, her plates, an ugly collection from various sets, cups bought in a rush on different occasions, 5 rusty pots she can’t bear throwing away. ‘Don’t buy anything just yet,’ she says, ‘soon all of this will be yours.’ My mother is planning another escape, for the fi rst time home is her destination, 10 the rebuilt house which she will furnish. At 69 she is excited about starting from scratch. It is her ninth time. She never talks about her lost furniture 15 when she kept leaving her homes behind. She never feels regret for things, only for her vine in the front garden which spread over the trellis on the porch. She used to sing for the grapes to ripen 20 sew cotton bags to protect them from the bees. I know I will never inherit my mother’s trees. Choman Hardi
Cape Town morning Winter has passed. The wind is back. Window panes rattle old rust, summer rising. Street children sleep, shaven mummies in sacks, 5 eyelids weighted by dreams of coins, beneath them treasure of small knives. Flower sellers add fresh blossoms to yesterday’s blooms, sour buckets fi lled and spilling. 10 And trucks digest the city’s sediment men gloved and silent in the municipal jaws. Ingrid de Kok Collection C 43
Page 1 and 2: Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology GCSE
Page 3: Contents Collection A: Relationship
Page 6 and 7: Relationships 2 Valentine Not a red
Page 8 and 9: Relationships 4 Sonnet 116 Let me n
Page 10 and 11: Relationships 6 Even Tho Man I love
Page 12 and 13: Relationships 8 One Flesh Lying apa
Page 14 and 15: Relationships 10 My Last Duchess Fe
Page 16 and 17: Relationships 12 Pity me not becaus
Page 18 and 19: Relationships 14 Nettles My son age
Page 20 and 21: Relationships 16 Lines to my Grandf
Page 22 and 23: Relationships 18 04/01/07 The telep
Page 24 and 25: 20 Half-caste Excuse me standing on
Page 26 and 27: 22 Belfast Confetti Suddenly as the
Page 28 and 29: 24 Exposure Our brains ache, in the
Page 30 and 31: 26 Catrin I can remember you, child
Page 32 and 33: 28 The Class Game How can you tell
Page 34 and 35: 30 Hitcher Simon Armitage This poem
Page 36 and 37: 32 O What is that Sound W. H. Auden
Page 38 and 39: 34 Conscientious Objector I shall d
Page 40 and 41: 36 Invasion Soon they will come. Fi
Page 42 and 43: 38 City Jungle Rain splinters town.
Page 44 and 45: 40 Postcard from a Travel Snob I do
Page 48 and 49: 44 Our Town with the Whole of India
Page 50 and 51: 46 In Romney Marsh As I went down t
Page 52 and 53: 48 Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Page 54 and 55: 50 London Snow When men were all as
Page 56 and 57: 52 Orkney / This Life It is big sky
Page 58 and 59: 54 The Stone Hare Think of it waiti
Page 60 and 61: 56 On the Life of Man What is our l
Page 62 and 63: 58 A Consumer’s Report The name o
Page 64 and 65: 60 Pessimism for Beginners When you
Page 66 and 67: 62 No Problem I am not de problem B
Page 68 and 69: 64 Living Space There are just not
Page 70 and 71: 66 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 The world is
Page 72 and 73: 68 Zero Hour Tomorrow all the train
Page 74 and 75: 70 Do not go gentle into that good
Page 76: Acknowledgements We are grateful to

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