Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Watch and listen to “Broken Verses of Betrayal and Redemption” by Raymond Helkio, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.

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Broken Verses of Betrayal and Redemption

By Raymond Helkio

ACT 1: the poem references titles and quotes from Tennessee Williams’s plays.

ACT 2: this poem uses Erasure’s “Where Were You” chorus to bridge the stanzas

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Copyright © Raymond Helkio

Raymond Helkio is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, whose work has been shown at international film, theatre, and design festivals including Inside Out Film Festival, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Design Exchange, Videofag, Art Gallery of Ontario, Glad Day Bookshop, Artscape and Nuit Rose. They also host Poetry Open Mic at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre and are an associate League Of Canadian Poets member.

Fresh Voices is a publication and workshop program created by and for the League’s associate members.

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