Poetry Trust closure puts Aldeburgh poetry festival in doubt

Literature body blames ‘difficult funding situation in the arts’ as it announces restructuring hiatus in bid to protect long-running Suffolk festival

The future of the long-running Aldeburgh poetry festival is in doubt after the Poetry Trust announced overnight that, because of funding shortfalls, all of its staff were leaving and its offices were closing.

Only a month after this year’s festival in the Suffolk seaside town, the Poetry Trust, which runs the event, said on Tuesday that“given the difficult funding situation in the arts at the moment”, it had decided it was the right time to pause and review how it operated.

It's a sad day in the office as we announce changes in The Poetry Trust structure. Let's hope for good news in 2016. https://t.co/l948Nv3OX1