Tag: Poetry Circus

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Broken Hearts

Poetry Circus fill the Bongo Club (an interesting yet not poor choice in venue for a spoken word night) with a sea of cabaret costumes: sequins, lipstick, coloured hair and stiletto heel glamour. As the audience takes their seats and the show begins, a soaring love song accompanies our opening film, a short tour through […]

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Culture Literature

Broken Hearts

New to the world of spoken word poetry, I sat down to Poetry Circus’ ‘Broken Hearts’ fearing an evening of excessively tragic laments and elegies to lost love. Instead, I saw performances with a lighthearted, whimsical approach to the theme of love and loss which, while ebullient, were often extremely moving. Needless to say, I […]