GCSE Poetry

Browse our GCSE poetry materials for all the main syllabuses and exam boards.

1st Date - She and 1st Date - He

1st Date – She and 1st Date – He by Wendy Cope – GCSE English...

A Child to his Sick Grandfather

A Child to his Sick Grandfather by Joanna Baillie – Edexcel GCSE English Teaching Resource...

A Complaint by William Wordsworth

A Complaint by William Wordsworth – Edexcel GCSE English Teaching Resource This detailed teaching resource...

A Wife in London

A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource...

Afternoons

Afternoons by Philip Larkin – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This detailed two-lesson...

AQA Anthology Poetry - How to Answer the Love and Relationships Question

AQA Anthology Poetry – How to Answer the Love and Relationships Question  GCSE English Literature...

AQA Anthology Poetry - How to Answer the Power and Conflict Question

AQA Anthology Poetry – How to Answer the Power and Conflict Question  GCSE English Literature...

AQA GCSE English Anthology - Love and Relationships Poetry

AQA GCSE English Anthology – Love and Relationships Poetry Bundle This comprehensive teaching bundle covers...

AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry

AQA GCSE English Literature – Unseen Poetry (75-slide editable PowerPoint + 12 worksheets | 2...

AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict Pack

AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology – Power and Conflict Complete Teaching Pack This comprehensive teaching bundle...

As Imperceptibly as Grief

As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource...

Bayonet Charge

Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Before You Were Mine

Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry...

Blackberry Picking

Blackberry Picking – Eduqas GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology Resource  This teaching resource for Seamus...

Catrin

Catrin – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource (First Assessment 2027)  This GCSE English...

Checking Out Me History

Checking Out Me History by John Agard – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching...

Climbing My Grandfather

Climbing My Grandfather by Andrew Waterhouse – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

Comparing Dulce et Decorum Est and The Charge of the Light Brigade

Comparing Dulce et Decorum Est and The Charge of the Light Brigade – KS3 &...

Cousin Kate

Cousin Kate – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource  This comprehensive Cousin Kate teaching...

Cozy Apologia

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This engaging...

Death of a Naturalist

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource...

Disabled - Wilfred Owen

Disabled by Wilfred Owen – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive two-lesson...

Drummer Hodge

Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Dulce et Decorum Est

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen   Our Dulce et Decorum Est teaching resource is made...

Eden Rock

Eden Rock by Charles Causley – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Edexcel Anthology Poetry - How to Answer the Conflict Question

Edexcel GCSE Anthology Poetry – How to Answer the Conflict Question (35-slide editable PowerPoint +...

Edexcel Anthology Poetry - How to Answer the Relationships Question

Edexcel GCSE Anthology Poetry – How to Answer the Relationships Question (35-slide editable PowerPoint +...

Edexcel GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry

Edexcel GCSE English Literature – Unseen Poetry Prepare your students for the unseen poetry question...

Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships

Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology – Relationships Cluster Complete Teaching Bundle This comprehensive teaching bundle contains...

Eduqas GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry

Eduqas GCSE English Literature – Unseen Poetry Prepare your students for success in the Eduqas...

Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology - War Poetry

Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology – War Poetry Teaching Resource Bundle Explore the powerful themes of...

Excerpt from The Prelude - In the Frosty Season

Excerpt from The Prelude – In the Frosty Season by William Wordsworth – WJEC Eduqas...

Exposure

Exposure by Wilfred Owen – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This detailed...

Follower by Seamus Heaney

Follower by Seamus Heaney – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

GCSE Eduqas Anthology - Love Poetry

GCSE Eduqas Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology – Complete Teaching Resource Bundle This comprehensive teaching...

GCSE Eduqas Anthology - Nature Poetry

GCSE Eduqas Anthology Nature Poetry – Complete Teaching Resource Bundle This comprehensive GCSE Eduqas Poetry...

GCSE Eduqas Anthology - Poetry of Place

GCSE Eduqas Anthology Poetry of Place – Complete Teaching Resource Bundle This comprehensive GCSE Eduqas...

GCSE Eduqas Anthology - Time and Transformation Poetry

GCSE Eduqas Time and Transformation Poetry – Complete Teaching Resource Bundle This comprehensive GCSE Eduqas...

GCSE Eduqas Anthology - War and Conflict Poetry

GCSE Eduqas War and Conflict Poetry – Complete Teaching Resource Bundle This comprehensive GCSE Eduqas...

Hawk Roosting

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This detailed...

I Shall Return

I Shall Return by Claude McKay – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This...

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – Eduqas GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology Resource  This...

I wanna be yours

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

Island Man

Island Man by Grace Nichols – English Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive English Literature teaching...

Kamikaze - AQA

Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Kamikaze - Eduqas

Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive two-lesson...

La Belle Dame sans Merci

La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

Letters from Yorkshire

Letters from Yorkshire by Maura Dooley – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

Living Space

Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

London by William Blake

London by William Blake – AQA Power and Conflict & WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Teaching...

Love's Dog

Love’s Dog by Jen Hadfield – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive GCSE...

Love's Philosophy

Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

Mametz Wood

Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Mother, Any Distance

Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource...

My Father Would Not Show Us

My Father Would Not Show Us by Ingrid de Kok – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry...

My Last Duchess - AQA

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource...

My Last Duchess - Edexcel

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This detailed...

Nettles

FREE Teaching Resource – Nettles by Vernon Scannell | Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry This free...

Neutral Tones - AQA

Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Neutral Tones - Edexcel

Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive two-lesson...

Nothing's Changed

Nothing’s Changed  Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika includes a wide range of activities for pupils...

One Flesh (Jennings)

One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive GCSE...

Ozymandias - AQA

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Ozymandias - WJEC Eduqas

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Poppies by Jane Weir

Poppies by Jane Weir – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Porphyria's Lover

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Remains - AQA

Remains by Simon Armitage – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Teaching Resource This comprehensive...

Remains - Eduqas

Remains by Simon Armitage – Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Teaching Resource (First Assessment 2027) This...

She Walks in Beauty - Edexcel

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron – Edexcel GCSE Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This...

She Walks in Beauty - Eduqas

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Singh Song!

Singh Song! by Daljit Nagra – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Teaching Resource This...

Sonnet 29 (I Think of Thee) - AQA

Sonnet 29 – I Think of Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – AQA GCSE Love...

Sonnet 29 (I Think of Thee) - Eduqas

Sonnet 29 – I Think of Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Eduqas GCSE Poetry...

Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Edexcel

Sonnet 43 – How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Edexcel GCSE...

Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Eduqas

Sonnet 43 – How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – WJEC Eduqas...

Storm on the Island

Storm on the Island – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit...

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This...

The Emigree

The Émigrée – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides an...

The Farmer's Bride

The Farmer’s Bride – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This one-lesson resource provides...

The Man He Killed (Hardy)

The Man He Killed – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This teaching resource...

The Manhunt

The Manhunt – WJEC/Eduqas Conflict Poetry & Edexcel Relationships Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides...

The Prelude - Stealing the Boat

The Prelude: Stealing the Boat – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson...

The Schoolboy

The Schoolboy – Eduqas GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology Resource This teaching resource for William...

The Soldier Rupert Brooke

The Soldier – WJEC Eduqas GCSE War Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides a detailed...

Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker

Tissue – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides a detailed...

To Autumn

To Autumn – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides a detailed study...

Valentine - WJEC Eduqas

Valentine – WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides a detailed study of...

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy - Edexcel

Valentine – Edexcel GCSE Poetry Relationships Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides an in-depth study of...

Walking Away

Walking Away – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides an...

War Photographer - AQA

War Photographer – AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides an...

War Photographer - Eduqas

War Photographer – Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology (First Assessment 2027) This two-lesson mini-unit provides a...

War Poetry Bundle

GCSE War Poetry Bundle – 10 Complete Teaching Resources This GCSE War Poetry Bundle brings...

When We Two Parted

When We Two Parted – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit...

Winter Swans

Winter Swans – AQA GCSE Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology This two-lesson mini-unit provides a...

WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Bundle

WJEC Eduqas GCSE Poetry Anthology Bundle – 18 Complete Teaching Resources This WJEC Eduqas GCSE...

WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry - Foundation

WJEC GCSE English Literature – Unseen Poetry (Foundation Tier) Support your foundation-tier students in preparing...

WJEC GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry - Higher

WJEC GCSE English Literature – Unseen Poetry (Higher Tier) Prepare your higher-tier students for the...