Poets are being urged to help raise funds after a leftwing London bookshop was damaged in a suspected firebomb attack. London’s oldest anarchist bookshop, Freedom Press, in Shoreditch, east London, was hit in the early hours of Friday, 1 February. The premises were uninsured. No one was hurt, but a significant amount of damage was caused.

Donate a Poem for Freedom is looking for poems on freedom, liberty, oppression and free speech for an anthology that will raise funds to help the bookshop recover. The deadline for submission is 1 March. Poems should be submitted to Alex Clarke at alexclarke333@gmail.com or at https://www.facebook.com/alex.clarke.14661

Freedom Press was founded in 1886 by a group including Peter Kropotkin, and describes itself as the largest anarchist publishing house in the country. The bookshop previously suffered an arson attack in 1993