CAROL ANN DUFFY POEM: A CUT BACK. A response to the cutting of Arts Council funding to literature.

In response to the Arts Council cuts to literature last week, Carol Ann Duffy, our poet laureate, created this poem. It borrows the tone, rhyme and rhythm of Louis MacNiece's Bagpipe Music. MacNeice's poem can be found here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bagpipe-music/

I'm not sure whether you lot have noticed but there is a significant cultural debate at the moment concerning the role and funding of art and culture at a time of economic recession. We discussed the role and purpose of literature last summer when students returned from AS exams. The argument still rages.

This poem appeared in The Guardian yesterday.If you click on the poem it should appear in a readable form.