Poems of the Decade Anthology: Context, Poem & Analysis! *A-Level Revision* | Narrator: Barbara Njau
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Date: 2019-09-27

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In this video, we will analyse the following poems in the entire anthology:
 
‘Eat Me’ by Patience Agbabi
'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass' by Simon Armitage
'Material' by Ros Barber
'Inheritance' by Eavan Boland
'A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning' by Sue Boyle 
'History' by John Burnside 
'The War Correspondent' by Ciaran Carson 
'An Easy Passage' by Julia Copus 
'The Deliverer' by Tishani Doshi 
'The Map Woman' by Carol Ann Duffy 
'The Lammas Hireling' by Ian Duhig 
'To My Nine-Year-Old Self' by Helen Dunmore 
'A Minor Role' by U A Fanthorpe 
'The Gun' by Vicki Feaver 
'The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled' by Leontia Flynn 
'Giuseppe' by Roderick Ford 
'Out of the Bag' by Seamus Heaney 
'Effects' by Alan Jenkins 
'The Fox in the National Museum of Wales' by Robert Minhinnick 
'Genetics' by Sinéad Morrissey 
'From the Journal of a Disappointed Man' by Andrew Motion 
'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' by Daljit Nagra 
'Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright' by Sean O’Brien 
'Please Hold' by Ciaran O’Driscoll 
'You, Shiva, and My Mum' by Ruth Padel 
'Song' by George Szirtes 
'On Her Blindness' by Adam Thorpe 
'Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn' by Tim Turnbull