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Poem 23 North South Divide
Englands Glory by Fleur Adcock 1986

Poem 24 Winds of Change
Hurricane Over England by Grace Nichols 1996

Poem 25 Green
The Groundsman by Zaffar Kinail 2022

Poem 20 The History of a Moment
Adelstrop by Edward Thomas 1917

Poem 21 Modernity Mourning and the Shadow of War
Funeral Blues by W H Auden 1936 and 1937

Poem 22 Poertry After Aushwitz
September Song by Geoffrey Hill 1968

Poem 17 Under The Wheels of Progress
Extract from the Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barret Browning 1842

Poem 18 You'll Be A Man My Son
Rules and Regulations by Lewis Carroll 1845

Poem 18 Queen Victoris's Book Science Nature and Faith
Extract from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1850

Poem 15 From Africa to New England to England A Voice of Freedom
To The Earl of Dartmouth bu Phillis Wheatley 1773

Poem 16 Contemplation of the Dust England in Ruins
Extract from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven by Anna L aetita Barbould 1812

Poem 13 Out of the Ashes Making The Metropolis
Extracts from Annus Mirabulis by John Dryden 1667

Poem 14 Below Stairs at the Country House
Extract from Crumble Hall by Mary Leapor 1745

Poem 11 Poetry Prophecy and the Island
This England John of Gaunts speech from Richard the Second by William Shakespeare around 1595
Poem 12 The Arse End of England
Attributed to Alexander Brome 1660

Poem 9 Anne Boleyn and All That
WhosoList to Hunt by Thomas Wyatt 1520's

Poem 10 Words For Burning
The Ballad of Anne Askew Made and Sang Whilst In Newgate Prison 1546

Poem 7 Love And Loss At A Time of Plague
Extract from The Pearl around 1390
Simon Armitage does a wonderful translation of this poem

Poem 6 What Women want
Extract from The Wife of Bath's Tale bu Geoffrey Chaucer around 1390

Poem 5 Mice Monks and Merry England
Sumer Is Icumen In around 1260