07.08.13 – Page 3 – ArtsJournal Wayback

When The Artists Visited Google (Why Can’t We Work Like This?)

Of course there is a huge difference in scale and accountability, but the point is clear that arts organisations could work more like this. As one delegate observed during the office tour: “Many arts organisations work as if they are local authority departments. We need to learn from this that there are more creative ways of working.”

Finalists For This Year’s Forward Poetry Prize

“The shortlist for the Â£10,000 best collection award is headed by Michael Symmons Roberts, who won the Whitbread award for poetry in 2004, and Glyn Maxwell, whose collection Pluto examines the language of dating websites.”