Works by Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Eavan Boland are set to be removed from A-level courses by an English exam board.
Exam board OCR said it was introducing "new texts by diverse authors" for its 2023 English Language and Literature A-Level.
Seamus Heaney's poem Punishment has been removed from OCR's GCSE poetry anthology.
The exam board said it made the changes to offer more diversity.
The Education Secretary in England Nadhim Zahawi said the removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from the same course was "cultural vandalism".
