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This is a list of books which contain all of the prescribed poems from each poet on the Leaving Certificate 2025 curriculum. The exact prescribed poems are listed in the info tab for each collection below.
Challenge Books
New Collected Poems
Eavan Boland
- The War Horse
- Child of Our Time
- The Famine Road
- The Shadow Doll
- White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland
- Outside History
- The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me
- This Moment
- The Pomegranate
- Love
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Emily Dickinson
- “Hope” is the thing with feathers
- There’s a certain Slant of light
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
- A Bird came down the Walk
- I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
- The Soul has Bandaged moments
- I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to
- A narrow Fellow in the Grass
- I taste a liquor never brewed
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
T.S. Eliot
- The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Aunt Helen from The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess
- Journey of the Magi from Landscapes
- III Usk
- IV Rannoch, by Glencoe from The Four Quartets East Coker IV
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- God’s Grandeur
- Spring
- As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
- The Windhover
- Pied Beauty
- Felix Randal
- Inversnaid
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
- No worst there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
- Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
Collected Poems
Patrick Kavanagh
- Inniskeen Road: July Evening
- Shancoduff
- from The Great Hunger Section I
- Advent
- A Christmas Childhood
- Epic
- Canal Bank Walk
- Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal
- The Hospital
- On Raglan Road
Collected Poems
Derek Mahon
- Grandfather
- Day Trip to Donegal
- Ecclesiastes
- After the Titanic
- As It Should Be
- A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
- Rathlin
- The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
- Kinsale
- Antarctica
The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
- Black Rook in Rainy Weather
- The Times Are Tidy
- Morning Song
- Finisterre
- Mirror
- Pheasant
- Elm
- Poppies in July
- The Arrival of the Bee Box
- Child
Duende
Tracy K. Smith
- Joy (Elegy 1)
- Dominion Over the Beasts of Earth
- Letter to a Photojournalist Going In
(bonus)
Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith
- The Searchers
- The Universe is a House Party
- The Museum of Obsolescence
- Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?
- The Universe As Primal Scream
- The Great Personal Privation
(bonus)
Wade in the Water: Poems
Tracy K. Smith
- It's Not
- I Am 60 Odd Years of Age- from I Will Tell You The Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It
