Poetry

The Sound Kitchen: Covid vaccine sceptics in France

Push to move gay poets Rimbaud, Verlaine to Panthéon meets opposition

American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature

Australian broadcaster Clive James dies after long struggle with cancer

Podcast: music as medicine in French hospitals, mental load in pictures, Rimbaud mania

On the trail of poet Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville-Mézières [Video]

Literary renaissance grips Mosul in Iraq

Letters to Rimbaud, 127 years after his death

The “killer” weed that kills pain

Oud for thought

Baudelaire's suicide letter sells for record auction price

Rimbaud's drawings, poem up for auction

Gun used to shoot Rimbaud sold for €435k

Yves Bonnefoy, 'one of 20th century's greatest poets', dies, aged 93

Maya Angelou, RFI Club news, and a slice of Cuban history

In France, springtime rhymes with poetry

French literary figure Michel Tournier dies aged 91

Rimbaud museum opens in poet's hometown

"I don’t know how to hate you"

Desplechin’s My Golden Days brings joy and pain of young love to Cannes Directors' Fortnight

Life in Beirut series part 4/5

A Kurdish poet battles to defend Kurdish language

Poetry Brothel brings burlesque and books to Paris

Prestigious French Academy admits first ever Briton