Illuminations (poetry collection) Illuminations (poetry collection) Illuminations is an uncompleted suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in "", a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title "Les Illuminations" proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's former lover. In his preface, Verlaine explained that the title was based on the English word "illuminations", in the sense of coloured plates, and a sub-title that Rimbaud had already given the work. Verlaine dated its composition between 1873 and 1875. Rimbaud wrote
Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (born 1960, Dublin), is an Irish writer and poet, published by Anvil Press Poetry. His first collection of poems, "Opia" (1986) was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice, a distinction for a first collection. Michael Kenneally complimented Moore's creativity in "Poetry in contemporary Irish Literature". His second collection, "How Now!" (2010) was described as "a searingly autobiographical book which bears comparison with Paul Durcan's "Daddy, Daddy"," and "a fine cumulative portrait of growing up in Ireland." Another reviewer commented: "The deadpan, affectless tone of these childhood poems makes them all the more disturbing. Moore has