The Ghost of Sylvia Plath

This month we have planned our own Poetry Brothel London style Easter with the resurrection of one of history’s most exciting, empowered, visceral, fiery, imaginative and ingenious poets; Sylvia Plath. We summon her gut-wrenching confessionalism, her uncompromising desires and her tormented beauty to inspire us and spark up the performances of our already scintillating poetry whores. We shall funnel the magic of Plath to turn our existences inside out and become poetry.

Because our myths are our delusions are the substance of poetry. Because there is nothing better than to dive into the dark corners of our psyches, and like an orphic prophet, return to the surface of the world with music and verse. 

We also want to pay homage to the powerful women who have signalled the way forward in creating their own vision of themselves, and their own identity, away from the patronising and monolithic glare of the mainstream man/cyclope. Expect beauty and power and a lot of fun dissolution into the poetical night.

Live Music
Tarot
Live Performances by our acclaimed poet/performers
Private readings for a token price of 5 pounds.


Imagine beauty encapsulated in the literary expression of a powerful psyche. Imagine purchasing a portion of a poet's mental anatomy. Imagine being locked in a perfumed room with a spirit and a flesh of your own choosing, jaunting through the alleyways and corridors of an artist's consciousness. Imagine sexiness and poems dancing together like flames with the wind.

The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry away from classrooms, lecture halls and Ivory towers and places it in the lush, radiant and fiery interiors of a bordello. Based on the concept of the fin-de-siecle bordellos in New Orleans and Paris, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling, avant-garde artists, The Poetry Brothel presents a rotating cast of "poetry whores" each operating within a carefully constructed character. For a small fee, you can purchase a piece of the "whore's" poetical spirit and absorb yourself in the true nature of one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms and other secret and intimate spaces.