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National Poetry Day: A Menu from DCU School of English

National Poetry Day: A Menu from DCU School of English

Click here to relive the cacophonous reading of Artur Rimbaud's "Le Bateau Ivre" that took place on Culture Night in September 2019, on the eve of our Planet Ocean seminar. We had twelve participants, each of whom read a version of the poem in a different language (and apparently in versions of very different length). The result of this tribute to the least holy of poets was a truly unholy and riotous row: