News at Eleven: Why should public cash subsidise work

that only a small percentage of readers read? To which one can only reply: it's always been like this. Poetry has always been a minority interest, because it's difficult. It's not to be gulped down on a flight or devoured on the beach at Formentera. It's not to be consumed like a thriller or fantasy novel, or heard and dismissed in three minutes, like a song. It deals in specialised language which it takes time and patience to decipher, whether it's "On His Blindness" or "Kubla Khan" or "The Waste Land."

from The Independent: We should cherish poetry, not kill it
then Poetry Book Society: Poetry Book Society fights Arts Council cut
then Petition Online: Save the Poetry Book Society

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