Rimbaud's house is coming back to life

[graham]

Some of you may already have read my blog about No.8 Royal College Street, the house once occupied by the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, and Poet in the City’s involvement in efforts to develop it for cultural purposes.

http://poetinthecity.typepad.com/graham ... r-poe.html

This week saw the publication of an article by Emily Dugan in the Independent which testifies to the continuing excitement surrounding the purchase and refurbishment of the property. You can read this article online at

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_b ... 152339.ece

Poet in the City is working hard to involve a corporate sponsor in the project, so that the connection with two of France’s greatest poets can be revived. In the meantime the new owner, Michael Corby, is committed to a sympathetic restoration of the property, and to celebrating the house’s important poetry connections.

The campaign to save the house stretches back over many years. The cause has been championed by many people, including former Camden councillor Gerry Harrison, actor Simon Callow, and local poets Aidan Andrew Dun and Niall McDevitt. There is a huge reservoir of enthusiasm and goodwill out there for the house and its historical associations.

It would be great if we could use this Forum to explore how – in an ideal scenario - the house could serve the interests of poetry, history and the local community.

For my part I would like to see the house including a small exhibition about the poets, a venue and meeting space, poetry research archive and internet resources, and a restored version of the room probably occupied by the poets.

I would also like to see the house as a home for Poet in the City and other sympathetic poetry organisations, so that poetry can be heard and discussed in the building on a daily basis. Rather than being just a museum, it would be good if the house could serve the interests of contemporary poets as well.

The French cultural associations of the house are also vital of course, and I would hope that the house could also be a centre of interest for both French visitors and all those in the UK who are passionate about French poetry. It would be very fitting for the UK to celebrate this unique and powerful connection with the literature of its closest neighbour.

Poetry can sometimes be too parochial. I think that Rimbaud’s house could represent a very different approach, encouraging cultural dialogue and collaboration, and using business sponsorship to attract new audiences to poetry. This is something which I know that Poet in the City would be proud to be associated with.

Whether you have been a long-standing supporter of the campaign to save No.8, or whether you have only just discovered its existence, I would welcome your views on the potential for its use to stimulate poets and poetry in Kings Cross and beyond.

[RehanQayoom]

This is fantastic news. Especially as places associated with poets can easily be overlooked or destroyed altogether. I think it is a great idea that the house should be snapped up by some association who could put it to artistic/poetic uses.

[jezzicaz789]

Some of you may already have read my blog about No.8 Royal College Street, the house once occupied by the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, and Poet in the City’s involvement in efforts to develop it for cultural purposes.

http://poetinthecity.typepad.com/graham ... r-poe.html

This week saw the publication of an article by Emily Dugan in the Independent which testifies to the continuing excitement surrounding the purchase and refurbishment of the property. You can read this article online at

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_b ... 152339.ece

Poet in the City is working hard to involve a corporate sponsor in the project, so that the connection with two of France’s greatest poets can be revived. In the meantime the new owner, Michael Corby, is committed to a sympathetic restoration of the property, and to celebrating the house’s important poetry connections.

The campaign to save the house stretches back over many years. The cause has been championed by many people, including former Camden councillor Gerry Harrison, actor Simon Callow, and local poets Aidan Andrew Dun and Niall McDevitt. There is a huge reservoir of enthusiasm and goodwill out there for the house and its historical associations.

It would be great if we could use this Forum to explore how – in an ideal scenario - the house could serve the interests of poetry, history and the local community.

For my part I would like to see the house including a small exhibition about the poets, a venue and meeting space, poetry research archive and internet resources, and a restored version of the room probably occupied by the poets.

I would also like to see the house as a home for Poet in the City and other sympathetic poetry organisations, so that poetry can be heard and discussed in the building on a daily basis. Rather than being just a museum, it would be good if the house could serve the interests of contemporary poets as well.

The French cultural associations of the house are also vital of course, and I would hope that the house could also be a centre of interest for both French visitors and all those in the UK who are passionate about French poetry. It would be very fitting for the UK to celebrate this unique and powerful connection with the literature of its closest neighbour.

Poetry can sometimes be too parochial. I think that Rimbaud’s house could represent a very different approach, encouraging cultural dialogue and collaboration, and using business sponsorship to attract new audiences to poetry. This is something which I know that Poet in the City would be proud to be associated with.

Whether you have been a long-standing supporter of the campaign to save No.8, or whether you have only just discovered its existence, I would welcome your views on the potential for its use to stimulate poets and poetry in Kings Cross and beyond.

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