KS3 War Poetry Anthology

Click here to access an anthology of war poems (and click here to access a Word version).

1. Extract from The Iliad, by Homer
2. Extract from Beowulf, by unknown poet
3. ‘Drummer Hodge’, by Thomas Hardy
4. ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’, by Rose Macaulay
5. ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, by Siegfried Sassoon
6. ‘Strange Meeting’, by Wilfred Owen
7. ‘Last Post’, by Carol Ann Duffy
8. ‘MCMXIV’, by Philip Larkin
9. ‘Pluck’, by Eva Dobell
10. ‘Platform One’, by Ted Hughes
11. ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, by Randall Jarrell
12. ‘Flag’, by John Agard

I’ve also included some decent wider reading at the end.

Hope it’s useful –

Doug

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