Edexcel Relationships Poetry Anthology

This section delves into the fifteen poems featured in the Edexcel Relationships 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 Relationships poems include: 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He , A Child to his Sick Grandfather, A Complaint, I wanna be yours, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Love’s Dog, Nettles, Neutral Tones, The Manhunt, My Father Would Not Show Us, My Last Duchess, One Flesh, She Walks in Beauty, Sonnet 43 and Valentine.

1st Date – She and 1st Date – He by Wendy Cope

A Child to his Sick Grandfather by Joanna Baillie

A Complaint by William Wordsworth

I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

Love’s Dog by Jen Hadfield

Nettles by Vernon Scannell

Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy

The Manhunt by Simon Armitage

My Father Would Not Show Us by Ingrid de Kok

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings