A major Hollywood film will be released this Friday 9 March, taking inspiration from the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Raven is a fictionalized account of the last days of the writer, played by John Cusack. In the film, Allan Poe is in pursuit of a serial killer who is committing murders that are straight out of Poe's own stories. Click here to learn more about Allan Poe and watch the trailer.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: Poems and Essays on Poetry is published by Carcanet, including his poem 'The Raven'. Although he experienced a mixed reception from his contemporaries in Britain and America, Poe was revered in France. C. H. Sisson provides an introduction to this selection, in which he sides with Baudelaire, Gautier, Mallarmé and Valéry in singling out the unlikely and powerful qualities in Poe's language, qualities inherent in his subject-matter and realised in his verse. Click here to find out more, and order your copy with free delivery.