Verse 2025 - Leaving Cert Poetry - Higher Level

Verse 2025 - Leaving Cert Poetry - Higher Level - Textbook & Poetry Skills Portfolio Book Set

The Textbook

• A full, annotated sample essay and sample essay questions for new prescribed poet Paula Meehan.


• All past questions for each poet are included.


• Contains all eight poets prescribed for examination in 2024.


• 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.

Poetry Skills Portfolio

Create an invaluable revision guide for exam-time. Build up knowledge of studied poets. Develop writing skills for producing exam-standard essay answers. The Verse Higher Level Poetry Skills Portfolio contains:

• mind maps


• word banks


• biography tasks


• theme, language and imagery note templates


• paragraph-writing tasks


• dedicated space for writing sample essays.