Edexcel Time and Place Poetry Anthology

This section delves into the fifteen poems featured in the Edexcel Time and Place 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 Time and Place poems include: Absence, Adlestrop, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, First Flight, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Hurricane Hits England, In Romney Marsh, I Started Early – Took my Dog, London, Nothing’s Changed, Postcard from a Travel Snob, Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan, Stewart Island, To Autumn and Where the Picnic Was.

Absence by Elizabeth Jennings

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth

First Flight by U. A. Fanthorpe

Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning

Hurricane Hits England by Grace Nichols

In Romney Marsh by John Davidson

I Started Early – Took my Dog by Emily Dickinson

London by William Blake

Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika

Postcard from a Travel Snob by Sophie Hannah

Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi

Stewart Island by Fleur Adcock

To Autumn by John Keats

Where the Picnic Was by Thomas Hardy

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