Poet in the City over 75 active volunteers who are involved in a range of activities including event management, marketing, film production, blogging and front-of-house roles. A dedicated audio team conducts interviews with the poets, speakers, actors and musicians featured in the events for Poet in the City's vast audio archive. Poet in the City inherited a campaign to create an Anglo-French cultural centre at 8 Royal College Street in Camden, the house occupied by the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine when they lived in London in 1873. The Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation is now a successful separate charity. Poet in the
Paul Henry (poet) Paul Henry (poet) Paul Henry (b. Aberystwyth, 1959) is a Welsh poet, songwriter and broadcaster. His poetry collection "Boy Running" was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2016. Starting out as a singer-songwriter, Henry's first collection "Time Pieces" was published by Seren Press in 1991, winning a Gregory Award. In 1992, he attended Joseph Brodsky's poetry masterclass at the Hay Festival, since which time a further eight books have appeared. His poems have been widely anthologised and can be found in journals such as "Poetry Review" and "The Times Literary Supplement". They have also featured on