Poetry Focus 2025

• Written by experienced teachers and examiners FRANCES ROCKS and MARTIN KIERAN
• Sample essays and essay plans with invaluable Examiner’s Comments
• Audio of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon reading their poems
• DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ACHIEVING TOP MARKS in the 2025 exam

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• Textbook
• FREE eBook*
• Digital resources on www.gillexplore.ie

*included with the textbook

FRANCES ROCKS and MARTIN KIERAN’s best-selling poetry anthology for Leaving Certificate Higher Level English.

UNIQUE EXAM-FOCUSED FEATURES

• Critical Literacy notes on each poem
• Sample paragraphs with Examiner’s Comments for each poem
• Exam-style Class/Homework Exercises
• Revision Overviews include visual memory aids
• Guidelines and sample questions and answers for Unseen Poetry
• Sample exam questions, (updated in line with the latest SEC questions) full essays, plans, marking scheme guidelines and Examiner’s Comments

DIGITAL RESOURCES 

• UNIQUE! Audio feature: selection of poets reading their prescribed poems
• Selected key quotes for each poem
• UNIQUE! Additional sample graded paragraphs with Examiner’s Comments
• Investigate Further feature: carefully selected and placed weblinks

The established and best-selling poetry anthology for Leaving Certificate Higher Level English by MARTIN KIERAN and FRANCES ROCKS is the definitive guide to achieving top marks in the 2025 exam.