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Carol Ann Duffy has responded to her removal from the GSCE curriculum says the Guardian with a poem this.
If you've not seen the story - one of her poems which has been used for donkeys' years is no longer going to be used because it encourages knife crime. Bang goes Psycho, obviously, but also The Scottish Play ("Is this a knife I see before me?"), Romeo and Juliet (hold up, it's poison, not stabbing yourself - is that Antony and Cleopatra?), Hamlet (regicide, incest and drowning - plus stabbing someone in the arras), King Lear (jumping off stools, dividing kingdoms), Titus Andronicus (eating people is wrong) and The Tempest (burying books - someone might misused the spade).
Gosh, for once poetry matters, but puhlease....
If you've not seen the story - one of her poems which has been used for donkeys' years is no longer going to be used because it encourages knife crime. Bang goes Psycho, obviously, but also The Scottish Play ("Is this a knife I see before me?"), Romeo and Juliet (hold up, it's poison, not stabbing yourself - is that Antony and Cleopatra?), Hamlet (regicide, incest and drowning - plus stabbing someone in the arras), King Lear (jumping off stools, dividing kingdoms), Titus Andronicus (eating people is wrong) and The Tempest (burying books - someone might misused the spade).
Gosh, for once poetry matters, but puhlease....
