Penny Rimbauld - Arthur Rimbaud In Verdun

One Little Independent

£13.77

Format: CD Album
Catalogue No.: TPLP1571CD
Barcode: 5016958096601
Release Date: 20th November 2020
Genre: Punk & Hardcore

"Penny Rimbaud, the legendary punk poet, writer, painter, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of seminal anarchist outfit Crass, has announced his new album ‘Arthur Rimbaud In Verdun’, out November 20th via One Little Independent Records.

A fiction constructed by Penny, out of interest as to the possible outcome, places the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (who died in 1891) at the historic and tragic battle of Verdun in 1916. The idea being that Penny found something to be explored in the possibilities of the young vagabond and his perception of such drastic events.

“Truth is, I landed him there because I was fascinated to know just how this greatest of French poets might cope against the enormities of war” he tells us, “I wondered what lessons would be learnt which could then be conveyed to a planet still so obsessed with conflict, grief and suffering.” "