Nouvelles

• Rimbaud and Verlaine embark on a journey

  Posted on Apr 8, 2014
  The poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine famously ran away together to London in 1872 where they lived for some time at No 8 Royal College Street in Camden (then Great College Street). Their famous journey is now, 142 years later, serving as the inspiration for another departure. The Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation, created in 2011 to take advantage of the gift of No 8 in the current owner's Will, is embarking on its own journey to use the poets and their cultural legacy as the inspiration for a new arts organisation, promoting poetry and Franco-British cultural exchange. It is exciting to …

• House of Knives - Director's Statement

  Posted on Mar 8, 2014
  You must install Adobe Flash to view this content. // Graham Henderson, CEO of the Foundation, comments on House of Knives, the short film he directed about Rimbaud and Verlaine, which is designed to promote the work of the Foundation. The purpose of making this short film was to tell the story of the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and in particular to explain the importance of their connection with the house at No 8 Royal College Street in Camden, where they lived for a few creative and turbulent months in 1873. For me it was therefore important that the house itsel…