
Companion guide
Spark something powerful
Inspirational new texts and poetry for GCSE English Literature.
Poetry
We’ve added a third cluster of poems to our poetry anthology for Paper 2 Section B.
Students study one of these poetry clusters:
- Love and relationships
- Power and conflict
- Worlds and lives*
*first teaching from September 2023 and first exams in summer 2025.

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