R J Dent reads Baudelaire
When Brighton’s Poetry Society met at The Cella in the Sanctuary Café on Monday, 26th March, 2007, R J Dent read a selection of poems from his recent translation of Charles Baudelaire’s decadent masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal, published by Creation Books in the autumn of 2007.
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The reading included two of the controversial and banned poems, Jewels and Metamorphosis of the Vampire.
He also read: The Sun, ‘To a Woman Passing By’, A Previous Life, and ‘When she walks it’s as though she dances…’ , the final three of which were broadcast on Brighton’s Radio Reverb.
