Penguin UK editor Donald Futers was accused of sexual misconduct by poet AK Blakemore. Blakemore wrote on Twitter in an attached statement: “I first met Donald Futers, Penguin’s Poetry Editor, at a reading in London in the Autumn of 2015 I attended with my then partner. A few months later, after a second reading, Donald & I exchanged numbers and planned to meet to discuss my work. The evening of that meeting he assaulted me. We had both been drinking. I disclosed what had happened at the time to my partner and a few close friends.” Blakemore writes that she decided […]
