Description

  • Immersive Theatre, Live Music and Theatre/Arts
  • Tickets from £8.00 - £25.00
  • Live Music
  • Over 18
  • Sat, 29th Mar 2025 @ 20:00 - 23:55
  • 20:00 - 23:55

The Poetry Brothel is a sanctuary for the misfits, the dreamers, the beautifully strange souls of London. In this idiosyncratic temple, you'll encounter a cast of characters birthed from the deepest corners of our poets' minds. For a modest token, our poets will invite you into their worlds, offering a one-on-one experience that is uniquely yours - a taste of genuine connection, a glimpse into the raw and untamed heart of humanity, delivered through poetry that is as experimental as it is intimate, as messy as it is real.

THEIR SHADOWS REST IN RAIN

The veil is thin—fluttering like a torn red curtain in a midnight breeze. The rain whispers, pooling in the footprints of those who once walked beside us. Shadows waver in the lamplight and their echoes spill into our world like ink on wet parchment. In this dreamscape, voices unravel from the hush of the past, murmuring prophecy, longing, and lament.

Here, time fractures, and the dead do not rest; they linger in unspoken verses, in love letters never sent, in the hush between raindrops.

Step into a night of spectral confessions, where poets slip between worlds,offering one-on-one readings from the depths of their haunted hearts. Come dressed in the colors of the storm—midnight blues, spectral silvers, drowned violets—and drift into a night of poetic divination. Dream what the dead dream.

 ✨ Save the Date: Saturday, 29th March ✨
Time: 8 PM – Midnight
Location: The Red Lion, Leytonstone

Doors open at 7pm

Offers

Promotions

Tickets/Times

Ticket Event time Cost
Seated tickets

Seated tickets. Seats allocated upon arrival.

20:00 - 23:55 £15.00
The Blue Rose Admission

Standing ticket

20:00 - 00:00 £8.00
Table reservation

Premium table seating at the show.

20:00 - 23:55 £20.00
The Fire Walk Experience

Includes tickets to the show and a 1-2-1 reading with a poet of your choice. 

20:00 - 23:55 £25.00
Donation

Can’t make it to the show, but still want to support us? We are a small self financed collective. Any donations are welcome.

20:00 - 23:55 £10.00

Location

Address

The Ballroom at The Red Lion, 640, High Road Leytonstone, London, E11 3AA

Nearest Station

Leytonstone (Tube)


Getting there

Organiser

The Poetry Brothel
The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello.

T&Cs

1. The ticket holder voluntarily assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring prior, during or after the event. The ticket holder voluntarily agrees that the management, venue, event participants, DesignMyNight WFL Media Ltd and all of their respective agents, officers, directors, owners and employers are expressly released by the ticket holder from any claims arising from such causes.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.

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  • Written by Aisha

    Rating: 5

    Really exciting and diffrent poetry night, with really fantastic performers, cool sets and amazing musicians. The one on one private reading give an opportunity to experience something unique and special
  • Written by Sarah

    Rating: 4

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    Visited 1 year ago
    I love the concept of poetry brothel. More performance art than just spoken word, the poetry whores are an eclectic and diverse group of beings brave enough to bare their souls and share their stories. Some are more polished and others are more trite but each is special in its own way. The show is now in a fancy new venue but still carries a homespun charm.
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