Ellen van Neerven's Mango is one of many poems that feature in her latest collection Comfort Food. Earlier this year, the book was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

On Monday morning Australian students opened their English Paper 1 for this year's Higher School Certificate to find Mango was included as a text to analyse for the course's theme of "discovery."



Dozens of students took to social media after finishing their Year 12 English exam to both criticise the author and ask her what the poem meant.