French poet Arthur Rimbaud is a hero, but she has also found inspiration in Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Claude Debussy, Herman Hesse, the Dadaists, William Blake and Jackson Pollock.

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The heady drink exploded in popularity in France during the late 19th Century, when artists and writers such as Van Gogh, Rimbaud and Wilde savoured its unusual taste and the effects of drinking it.

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The poems came slowly, as did the vision of the sort of poet Crane believed he was destined to become something soaring and visionary in the mould of his greatest literary heroes: Rimbaud, Blake, Baudelaire.

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