CIE / Cambridge IGCSE Poetry Anthology List

Below, you’ll find a list of the current CIE / Cambridge IGCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology (0475). These are for the 2020-2021 syllabus. This is a list of all the poems from Songs of Ourselves, Vol. Pt 3 that could come up on Paper 1 of the IGCSE English Literature exams.

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CIE / Cambridge IGCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology List:

Caged Bird Maya Angelou
Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Farmhand James K Baxter
Muliebrity Sujata Bhatt
Plenty Isobel Dixon
The Three Fates Rosemary Dobson
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden
Mid-Term Break Seamus Heaney
Little Boy Crying Mervyn Morris
Rising Five Norman Nicholson
Amends Adrienne Rich
Sonnet 29 Edna St Vincent Millay
Marrysong Dennis Scott
Not Waving But Drowning Stevie Smith
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways William Wordsworth

NOTE: This poetry collection is from the 2020-21 syllabus for Cambridge IGCSE Literature (0475 – Paper 1). It is taken from Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 Part 3.

List of the poems from the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4):

‘A Consumers Report’ – Peter Porter
‘Away, Melancholy’ – Stevie Smith
From ‘Long Distance II’ – Tony Harrison
‘Funeral Blues’ – W H Auden
‘He Never Expected Much’ – Thomas Hardy
‘Night Sweat’ – Robert Lowell
‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’ – Charles Tennyson Turner
‘Ozymandias’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Request To A Year’ – Judith Wright
‘The City Planners’ – Margaret Atwood
‘The Man with Night Sweats’ – Thom Gunn
‘The Planners’ – Boey Kim Cheng
‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ – Anne Stevenson
‘The Telephone Call’ – Fleur Adcock
‘Rain’ – Edward Thomas

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Here’s the list of the poems in the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2, Part 4).

‘After’ – Philip Bourke Marston
‘I hear an Army’ – James Joyce
‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’ – A.R.D. Fairburn
‘Rooms’ – Charlotte Mew
‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Love in a Life’ – Robert Browning
‘Nearing Forty’ – Derek Walcott
‘Waterfall’ – Lauris Dorothy Edmond
‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’ – Mary Monck ‘Marinda’
‘A Leave-Taking’ – Algernon Charles Swinburne
‘From an Essay on Criticism’ – Alexander Pope
‘The Forsaken Wife’ – Elizabeth Thomas
‘The Character of a Happy Life’ – Henry Wotton
‘I Find no Peace’ – Sir Thomas Wyatt
‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’ – Elinor Morton Wylie