which last Friday saw a vote of no confidence carried against its board of trustees, have led the Arts Council to withhold funding from the 100-year-old organisation. Arts Council England was due to pay the Poetry Society's quarterly grant payment of £78,499 in July, but has delayed it until the society addresses ACE's "concerns around governance, management and leadership, reputational risk and reasonable care".The troubles began last month, when president Jo Shapcott, chairman of the board Peter Carpenter, director Judith Palmer and financial officer Paul Ranford all resigned.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Poetry Society funding withheld
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Readers, bloggers and booksellers put forward a host of their favourite first books not submitted by publishers. Claire Armitstead, the Guardian books editor, singled out for praise Michael Stewart's King Crow, the story of an alienated teenager and obsessive birder which she said reminded her of Kes "both in its use of birds and in its setting", and Penny Goring's The Zoom Zoom, "a really energetic and raw collection of poetry and short prose themed around a young woman with an abusive father". Guardian books blogger Sam Jordison loved The Roost by Neil Butler, a short story collection set in the Shetlands, which he called "wonderful! Strange, and bleak, but also uplifting . . . It's not quite Dennis Johnson, but it's one of the closest things I've read."
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: First space on Guardian first book award longlist goes to new publisher
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