AQA Anthology

The AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts which were studied in English schools for GCSE English and English Literature between 2004-2010, produced by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA). The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney,Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools which had chosen not to study a separate set text.

GCSE English students studied all of the poems in either cluster and answered a question on them in Section A of Paper 2.

In 2005, Andrew Cunningham, an English teacher at Charterhouse School complained in the Telegraph that the inclusion of the poems represented an "obsession with multi-culturalism". After removing "Education for Leisure" from the anthology in 2008 (after a complaint made by Pat Schofield, an external examiner at Lutterworth College, Leicestershire), the exam board was accused of censorship.

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