R. J. Dent

R. J. Dent is a poet, novelist and translator. His latest book is a novel, Revelation. Other works include a novel (Myth); a controversial Gothic novella (Deliverance); a short story collection (Gothiques & Fantastiques); and a poetry collection (Moonstone Silhouettes). His modern English translations include Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror; Charles Baudelaire's Selected Erotic Poems, André Breton’s Soluble Fish, Alcaeus’s Poems & Fragments, Alfred Jarry’s Speculations; Pierre Louys’s Her Three Daughters and Paul Éluard’s Capital of Pain. R J Dent is currently writing a true crime study of Blanche Monnier, the Prisoner of Poitiers.