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A Rimbaud review – legendary poet’s unlikely transformation into entrepreneur is as odd as ever

Australian actor Blake Draper delivers a committed one-man performance tracking the writer as he morphs from enfant terrible to merchant

The Guardian - UK

The daring new film festival bringing underground edge to London

Four-day event will screen international premieres and spotlight rarely screened hidden gems

The Independent UK

Antipodean prose poetry is coming into its own

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, wrote groundbreaking works of prose poetry, including Gaspard de la nuit (1842), Le Spleen de Paris (1869) and Illuminations (1886), Australian poets remained suspicious of the form.

The Conversation

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Poet, trader, explorer: following Rimbaud's footsteps in Ethiopia

In the heart of Ethiopia's ancient walled city of Harar, more than 500 kilometres east of Addis Ababa, stands a museum dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud. It offers visitors the chance to discover a little-known period in the brief life of the French poet, who spent most of his final 10…

Radio France Internationale

Terence Stamp obituary

Strikingly handsome British actor hailed for his film roles in Far from the Madding Crowd, Billy Budd and Superman

The Guardian - UK

“I like being in total control, then I hooked up with Kurt Cobain and everything lost control.” Courtney Love on “battling Kurt's dammed demons” and pouring “25 years of repressed rage” into Hole's music

Courtney Love looks back on Hole's early days, and how her life changed after she “hooked up” with her future-husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Louder

Poet, editor, publisher, anthologist: John Tranter's influential life in literature

Perhaps more than any Australian poet of the 20th Century, John Tranter, who died last Friday at the age of 79, was guided by a relentless desire to experiment. His earliest admiration was for the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, and he soon discovered John Ashbery, who ultimately became his most…

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Patti Smith: ‘I am who I am with all my flaws’

At 75, the punk poet, singer, artist and author talks candidly about life, loss, loneliness and her acclaimed new photography project

The Guardian - UK

Rimbaud's birthplace to acquire a rare portrait of the poet by his sister

Charleville-Mézières, Rimbaud's birthplace, has launched a public funding appeal to acquire a portrait of the poet by his sister Isabelle, recently found in a Parisian bookshop, for a total of 180,000 euros.

Radio France Internationale

Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human

Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of war

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