Tuesday, July 26, 2011

News at Eleven: The trustees' solution, that [Fiona] Sampson

should work more from home for three months and report directly to them, resulted in [Judith] Palmer resigning and threatening legal action.

Paul Ranford, the finance director, and Jo Shapcott, the Costa prize-winning poet and society president, followed her, as did Gwyneth Lewis, a vice-president, Robyn Bolam, a trustee, and Peter Carpenter, the chairman, who cited intolerable pressures on his personal and professional life.

from The Guardian: Poetry Society annual meeting ends in no confidence vote

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