Changes to AQA English Literature GCSE for 2025

From September 2023, introduction of three texts in Paper 2 (Modern Texts and Poetry):

• Princess and the Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba (drama)

• Leave Taking by Winnsome Pinnock (drama)

• My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (prose)

• Worlds and Lives (third poetry cluster)

Worlds and Lives

Does this mean that one of the other clusters will be removed soon?

Fifteen poems:

• Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
• England in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Shall earth no more inspire thee by Emily Brontë
• In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot
• On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 by James Berry
• Name Journeys by Raman Mundair
• pot by shamshad khan
• A Wider View by Seni Seneviratne
• Homing by Liz Berry
• A century later by Imtiaz Dharker
• The Jewellery Maker by Louisa Adjoa Parker
• With Birds You’re Never Lonely by Raymond Antrobus
• A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
• Like an Heiress by Grace Nichols
• Thirteen by Caleb Femi