Australian poet and activist John Kinsella was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. He and the poet Alice Oswald subsequently removed themselves for consideration on the basis that Aurum, the hedge fund sponsoring the prize, was not a moral company and neither wished to whitewash their money.

Kinsella responded to the controversy by publishing a manifesto of ‘linguistic disobedience’ in the New Statesman.

It’s well worth reading.

P.S.
For those keeping score, The New Statesman was one of the Christopher Hitchens’ earliest writing gigs. He was with them when he came to America to write for The Nation as part of an exchange program between the two magazines.