Verse 2025 Textbook and Poetry Skills Portfolio Higher Level

Verse 2025 Textbook & Poetry Skills Portfolio Higher Level

• Exam-useful glossary, invaluable insights and analyses provided for all poems.
• Biographical information and overview on all poets, emphasising their lives and contexts as writers.
• Multiple exam-style questions on poems, including general questions on work by prescribed poets.
• Detailed critical commentary on all prescribed poems and poets.
• Full list of previous exam questions asked on prescribed poets.
• Section on the Unseen Poem with guidelines and sample answer.
• Hints and advice on how to approach the paper.
• Glossary of literary terms.
• All past questions for each poet are included.
• Contains all eight poets prescribed for examination in 2025.
• Features a clear, colourful A4 layout.
• A key image accompanies each poem.
• Timeline for each poet offers relevant biographical detail to give context to their work.
• Pre-reading and comprehending and responding questions for all poems.
• Exploring sections after each poem offer immediate, clear analysis in a concise format.
• Relevant quotations and biographical details are integrated in the commentary, providing a model for essay answers.
• Creating questions contains innovative writing assignments prompted by the poem, which allow practise for Paper 1 through the study of poetry with common formats such as letters and blog posts.
• End-of-chapter theme sections contain handy reference tables showing the main themes within each poem.
• Major themes are explored in-depth, bringing together an overall analysis of the poet.
• End-of-chapter language and imagery sections offer notes on key literary techniques used by the poet with relevant examples for each.
• Sample essay plans and paragraphs for each poet develop skills in building structured answers that respond accurately to the question asked.
• Unseen Poetry section offers friendly guidance on approaching the unseen question with a variety of fresh poems and songs.
• Glossary of poetic terms gives clear explanations to refer back to when needed.
• Exam Advice sections provide useful information on preparing for and answering on prescribed and unseen poetry.