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David Lister writes in the wake of Alice Oswald and John Kinsella's decisions to withdraw from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist. Lister offers the view that 'the arts are, and have to be, a mixed economy, more than ever in the current climate' and that 'they rely on sponsorship'.