When his lover Paul Verlaine tried to shoot him, Rimbaud became notorious throughout Paris. Soon after, he turned his back on literature for a wandering life of exploration and gunrunning. The fascination for this story has recently overshadowed discussion of his writing, but as his seminal work Illuminations is published in a new English translation, Laura Cumming asks if Rimbaud the poet deserves reappraisal. Plus news from tonight's world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff 's Talk of the City. Set in the 1930s, the play evokes the golden age of the radio. A reporter is at its opening at the RSC in Stratford. Producer Julian May