After a series of mysterious resignations at the UK’s prestigious Poetry Society—including the society’s president, financial officer, director, and the chairman of its board—423 of the society’s members signed a petition demanding a general meeting to ask the society’s board what is going on. Signatories included the British poet laureate and National Poet of Wales. Ten percent of the society’s 4,000 members was required to force the rare general meeting.

Poet Kate Clanchy, who spearheaded the petition, told The Guardian:

It’s really difficult to get 10% of the Poetry Society together. It’s like herding cats. But here we are, and they have to listen.

The petitions were delivered in a red wheelbarrow, a reference to William Carlos Wiliams’s famous poem. In response, the Poetry Society gave the petitioners some cold plums.