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
Sam Hunt (poet) tours have been undertaken with another poet and "fellow exuberant", Gary McCormick. Hunt has a high regard for other twentieth-century English language poets such as William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas (Hunt particularly loves Thomas' poem, "In my Craft or Sullen Art", which he sees as speaking to his own mission as a poet; he has said that he sometimes gives his occupation (to Customs Officers and such) as "sullen artist"). He also loves foreign language poets such as the Italian, Salvatore Quasimodo, and the Hungarian poet Jozsef Attila (Hunt often recites Attila's poem "A Hetedik" or