Pete Doherty, Poetry Maven. No, Really!

Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty may be better known for his tumultuous personal life than for his music, but it turns out all that prison time was an excellent opportunity for reading poetry. Rimbaud, Verlaine … and don’t even get him started on Emily Dickinson. “Aargh, she’s outrageous man!” he says. “She’s [expletive] hardcore! Can’t ignore her.”