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
John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (1 August 1920 – 29 August 1999) was an English poet, critic and academic. Born in Croydon, South London and educated at the County School at Beckenham in Kent and the University of Oxford (New College), he served in the Royal Artillery and Intelligence during the Second World War and then pursued an academic career. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1946–60 and of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1955–82, becoming a Life Fellow on his retirement. He held a post as Lecturer in English at Aberdeen University (1949–54), and then moved