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List of poems for 2018-2023

TEXT: World of Poetry for CXC
TITLE                                                                                                                              POET

An African Thunderstorm                                                                                  David Rubadiri
Once Upon a Time                                                                                             Gabriel Okara
Birdshooting Season                                                                                           Olive Senior
My Parents                                                                                                         Stephen Spender
Little Boy Crying                                                                                                Mervyn Morris
Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge                                            William Wordsworth
West Indies, U.S.A                                                                                             Stewart Brown
Orchids                                                                                             Hazel Simmons-McDonald
A Stone's Throw                                                                                              Elma Mitchell
The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son                           Lorna Goodison
God's Grandeur                                                                                     Gerard Manley Hopkins
Theme for English B                                                                                       Langston Hughes
Test Match, Sabina Park                                                                                      Stewart Brown
Dreaming Black Boy                                                                                              James Berry
This is the Dark Time, My Love                                                                           Martin Carter
It is the Constant Image of Your Face                                                                  Dennis Brutus
Dulce et Decorum Est                                                                                            Wilfred Owen
Ol' Higue                                                                                                                Mark McWatt
Mirror                                                                                                                       Sylvia Plath
South                                                                                                             Kamau Brathwaite


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