Here's a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's first female Poet Laureate:
This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath.
There is no word net.
You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.
Last year, her poem "Education for Leisure" was removed from the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) syllabus in the United Kingdom upon the request of Assessment and Qualification Alliance (AQA) board.
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