The TS Eliot prize cannot survive without sponsorship at a time of cuts | Gillian Clarke
The Poetry Book Society asked hard questions of Aurum, but most poets earn little from writing and prizes are vitalOn the right-hand side of my desk are eight volumes of poetry, the shortened shortlist of volumes entered for the TS Eliot prize. They re...
Alice Oswald: Why I pulled out of TS Eliot prize
Poetry represents the faint, honest voice in us all. So should it be funded by opaque hedge funds?In March of this year, the Arts Council withdrew funding from the Poetry Book Society. A campaign was mounted and a petition was sent round. I didn't sign...
Hunt offers little hope of intervening over library closures
Select committee questions culture secretary about libraries, DCMS cuts but not the arts during annual grillingAnyone hoping that the government is going to intervene to stop library closures will not take great comfort from Jeremy Hunt's comments at ...
Letters: Peace breaks out at the Poetry Society
Those of us closely linked with the beleaguered poetry scene welcome the outbreak of peace at the Poetry Society and hope it will continue its useful work in supporting poets and poetry in many different ways with restored funding from the Arts Council...
Letters: Betrayal of trust at the Poetry Society
I am astonished that the Guardian, long a friend to poetry and poets, should be so badly misinformed about the crisis facing the Poetry Society (In praise of… impoverished poets, 28 July). I am not a party to the dispute, simply an appalled onlooker....
Museums, libraries and the arts have much to gain from each other | Estelle Morris
The integration of museums and libraries functions within the Arts Council is an opportunity to build upon shared valuesEarlier this year, I was tasked by the Arts Council to review how museums and libraries could be best reflected in its strategic goa...
This week’s arts funding roundup
Julian Fellowes speaks out against cinema closure; Women's Institute joins campaign to save libraries; Birmingham's only queer culture festival gets a funding boost, and more• As a reaction against continuing arts cuts, former chairman of Channel 4 t...
Andrew Motion attacks government’s ‘shoot first, aim later’ arts policies
Former poet laureate criticises Hunt and Vaizey as he calls for humanities to be defended from the barbarians inside the gatesAndrew Motion made an impassioned, some would say devastating, attack on the government's arts policies when he gave the histo...
This week’s arts funding news | Rachel Segal Hamilton
Student sit-in draws to a close at London Met; Nottingham loses free music festival; libraries reduce opening hours to avoid permanent closure, and more• A sit-in by students protesting against cuts to arts and humanities courses at beleaguered Londo...
David Edgar: why should we fund the arts?