Vincent's Poets

<p>Vincent Van Gogh was an impassioned reader of poetry. What is more he loved the exalted idea of poets. In 1888 less than two years before he took his own life he entitled a new painting of Eug��ne Boch a young Belgian painter 'The Poet' because he wanted to define such a being visually. </p><p>In his new collection the poet Michael Glover in a suite of forty poems not only writes about some of Van Gogh's greatest paintings but also interrogates his turbulent nature as a man revolutionary artist and lover of poetry. </p>