THE poems of Keats, Hardy, Larkin and Owen have been replaced in a GCSE English syllabus with works by disabled, black and LGBT poets. The move by examinations body OCR was condemned by Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, who is to contact its board.
The Baghdad-born minister said: "Larkin and Owen are two of our finest poets. Removing their work from the curriculum is cultural vandalism. Their work must be passed on to future generations. As a teenager improving my grasp of the English language, Larkin's poems taught me so much about my new home."
