AQA English Literature B NEA poetry help

I need to decide on a poet to do my NEA on but I don't read poetry and I'm really struggling to choose one. Does anyone have any poets and poetry recommendations that are not too difficult to apply the six critical lenses to?

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Emmaqueen

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by spikedacact

You could study ''The charge of the light brigade'' by Alfred Tennyson it's really easy to analyse

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caitlyn.m

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by spikedacact

hi! I'm doing my poetry section on poems by Derek Walcott (a Saint Lucian poet) through a post-colonial lens. You might have been told to look at a collection of Sylvia Plath poems (eg Ariel) for feminism. My teacher said you could also look at Seamus Heaney from a post-colonial lens. But if you want more ideas go to Poetry Foundation and they have loads of collection of poems that you can take inspiration from (for example, they have a "feminist collection" and if you particularly like the poet you can look at more of their work through a feminist lens.) Hope this helps!