Seven Days Left to Listen: A Season in Hell

Last night while falling asleep to BBC Radio 3 I heard a brilliant adaptation of Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell on Between the Ears.

Rimbaud was a prolific poet during his writing career, which finished at the age of 21.  Rimbaud wrote A Season in Hell during a difficult and destructive relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.  It is a very intimate trip into the subconscious of someone who is reassessing their life, its contributions and its failures.

I had never heard Rimbaud before, and last nights version certainly impressed me and I will be looking further into his work.  I doubt that anyone could listen and not be challenged and moved, whether is is in a negative or a postive way is rather down to your own tastes.