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Introduction About this book How to use this book to help you Preparing for the examination Section 1 English How the English Anthology fits into the course What the examiners are looking for Poems from Different Cultures and Traditions Cluster 1 Limbo Kamau Brathwaite Nothing's Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Island Man Grace Nichols Blessing Imtiaz Dharker Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes Lawrence Ferlinghetti Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel Vultures Chinua Achebe What Were They Like? Denise Levertov Poems from Different Cultures and Traditions Cluster 2 from Search For My Tongue Sujata Bhatt from Unrelated Incidents Tom Leonard Half-Caste John Agard Love After Love Derek Walcott This Room Imtiaz Dharker Not My Business Niyi Osundare Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan Moniza Alvi Hurricane Hits England Grace Nichols Comparing poems from Different Cultures and Traditions Structuring a response to poems from Different Cultures and Traditions Section 2 English Literature How the English Literature Anthology fits into the course What the examiners are looking for Poetry Seamus Heaney Gillian Clarke Carol Ann Duffy Simon Armitage Pre-1914 Poetry Bank Comparing poems/Structuring a poetry response Prose The Anthology Short Stories Flight Doris Lessing Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit Sylvia Plath Your Shoes Michele Roberts Growing Up Joyce Cary The End of Something Ernest Hemingway Chemistry Graham Swift Snowdrops Leslie Norris Comparing short stories Structuring a prose repsonse Sample answers and commentaries Glossary