News at Eleven: Children's laureate Michael Rosen,

beat poet Michael Horovitz and dozens of other established writers, ranging from academic Ken Worpole to mental health campaigners Barry Tebb and Brenda Williams, are among the 100-plus contributors to Emergency Verse: an anthology of poems to be published online in protest at the coalition government's public spending cuts.

Boasting the personal endorsement of Green MP Caroline Lucas, the e-anthology will be mass-emailed to No 10 Downing Street and every Whitehall department this month, as civil servants grapple with Treasury demands for savings of up to 40%.

from The Guardian: Fighting public sector cuts with poetry

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