Edexcel Belonging Poetry Anthology

This section delves into the fifteen poems featured in the Edexcel Belonging GCSE Poetry Anthology. Follow the links below to access the Poems page, where you'll find in-depth analyses and the poems themselves.

The Edexcel Belonging poems include: Captain Cook (To My Brother), Clear and Gentle Stream, In Wales, Wanting to be Italian, I Remember, I Remember, Island Man, Jamaican British, Kumukanda, Mild the Mist Upon the Hill, My Mother’s Kitchen, Peckham Rye Lane, To My Sister, The Émigrée, Sunday Dip, Us and We Refugees.

Captain Cook (To My Brother) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Clear and Gentle Stream by Robert Bridges

In Wales, Wanting to be Italian by Imtiaz Dharker

I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

Island Man by Grace Nichols

Jamaican British by Raymond Antrobus

Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi

Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Brontë

My Mother’s Kitchen by Choman Hardi

Peckham Rye Lane by A. K. Blakemore

To My Sister by William Wordsworth

The Émigrée by Carol Rumens