Poetry in motion

Staff and students at the troubled Southampton Institute are to benefit from a steady stream of literary enlightenment, courtesy of the institute's new poet in residence, Julia Copus. In the lead-up to Christmas, 10,000 leaflets are to be distributed in Southampton featuring a poem by Ms Copus. A few lines from her studied verse suggest she is likely to strike a chord in some quarters.

In her poem, "The Last Days of Proverbia", she writes: "The milk is spilt into, and little good comes of it" ... "In view of our dwindling numbers it is no longer safe to stay."