R J Dent

Lautréamont's Apocrypha is available for pre-order. From Infinity Land Press on 12th December 2025, it includes the first draft of Canto 1 of Maldoror, Poésies, the fragments, and the letters.
Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak
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I have spare copies of my English translations of Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil and Fanfarlo.

DM if you're interested in purchasing a copy of either book.

Book details (The Flowers of Evil): rjdent.wordpress.com/the-flowers-...
Book details (Fanfarlo): rjdent.wordpress.com/fanfarlo/

French coffee and Catherine Breillat's I Only Believe in Myself...

Red wine and three different editions of The Atrocity Exhibition...

The Diary of Frida Kahlo and red wine...

The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, written by Peter Weiss, published by Marion Boyars, 1994 reprint edition.

Marat/Sade and French coffee...

Two of my translations of important works by Charles Baudelaire are published simultaneously today. The Flowers of Evil is rightfully regarded as the most influential poetry collection ever - Fanfarlo is Baudelaire's only sustained work of prose fiction.

Book details: incunabulamedia.com/r-j-dent-1

There is now an R J Dent author page at Incunabula Media. Twelve of my books (fiction, non-fiction and translations) published by Incunabula are available there.
The link to the page is here: incunabulamedia.com/r-j-dent-1

Strange and unsettling, The Bridges describes the changing relationships between a young mother who has drowned her newborn child, and Aud and Torvil, a couple who befriend her.

ISBN: 978-1-300-27138-3
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Incunabula

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Making a Cloak
Copyright © R J Dent (2025)
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Drinking continental coffee and making notes for my next book...

Coffee and the 10th draft of a new poem...

Actual colours at 7.19 this morning. Phone camera magnified to give the photo the look of a painting.

True crime and coffee.

Title: Screaming at the Window
Subtitle: The tragic story of Blanche Monnier, the Prisoner of Poitiers
Author: R J Dent
ISBN: 979-8-9865233-9-2
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
Genre: True Crime

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David Greenslade's piece on Jennifer Allan, the artist responsible for 'Removal of the Mask' the powerful image used on the cover of my book, Emily Dickinson's Sexual Personae.

Book details: www.rjdent.com/sexual-perso...

Absolutely floored by Thomas Moore's review of my English translation of Rene Crevel's Scattered Leaves, published by Incunabula.
Book link: incunabulamedia.com/r-j-dent-1
Original post: www.instagram.com/p/DOq46GdjGn...

Very proud to have my English translation of Jean Lorrain's eerie short story, The Man Who Made Wax Heads, included in the Autumn Issue (No. 18) of Exacting Clam. Thank you to the editors for giving it such a prestigious home.
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Very proud to have my short story, Miranda's Polymorphic Adventures published in Cum Punk. Thank you to Kum V for editing my story so beautifully.

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Head (1912) by Amedeo Modigliani - Tate St. Ives.

A St. Michael's Mount notebook and pen, Glen Duncan's Love Remains and black coffee.

Botallack tin mine, Pendeen, Cornwall, England.

Glen Duncan: rjdent.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/g...

Deliverance - clockwise from top left: Deliverance, the screenplay by James Dickey; Deliverance, the film starring John Voight and Burt Reynolds, directed by John Boorman; coffee; Deliverance, the novel by James Dickey.

Just about to start reading this. Thank you, Thomas Moore, for signing this hardback copy of we'll never be fragile again for me.

A big thank you to @beyondzeropod for giving me the opportunity to discuss my English translation of the Marquis de Sade's Stories, Tales, and Fables, published by Contra Mundum Press
Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Book: www.rjdent.com/stories-tale...

Salvador Dali's Diary of a Genius and coffee...

The Marquis de Sade in French: Historiettes, contes et fabliaux and in English: Stories, Tales, and Fables.

Book details:
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'I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field...'

Five books by Jean Cocteau and a biography by Francis Steegmuller.

Thanks to some great website updates courtesy of sparticle.co.uk, the details of my English translations of Tarjei Vesaas' early novel, The Seed, and his final novel, The Bridges, both published by Incunabula, are now available on my website here:
www.rjdent.com/the-seed/
www.rjdent.com/the-bridges/