Rumblings continue after last week's Poetry Society meeting, not least at our reporting of the raft of resignations and campaign to demand explanations from the board, and the three-hour extraordinary general meeting which ended in a motion of no confidence.

All of which has left George Szirtes fuming. "The snigger – very much a white middle-class snigger come to think of it, in fact bang on white middle-class – is exactly what I expect of the Guardian now," he writes.