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Well, Stamford. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! 🖤💀Last night’s Rhymes on the Rocks was something else.Wall to wall, packed in l...
15/10/2026

Well, Stamford. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! 🖤💀

Last night’s Rhymes on the Rocks was something else.

Wall to wall, packed in like sardines, familiar faces squeezed up against brand-new ones. The laughter, the heckling, the absolute ROAR of a room full of people having the time of their lives.

And the poetry. Oh, the poetry.

You opened your closets, rattled your skeletons, and shared things that took real guts to say out loud. We had people stepping up to the mic for the first time after months of watching from the audience. And a room that held every single one of them.

And STU FREESTONE. What an absolute force of nature. You magnificent human. Thank you for bringing everything you brought. 🔥

Somewhere between the belly laughs, the brave confessions, the ridiculous heckling, and the applause, something really rather beautiful happened.

It felt like family.

Not the kind you’re born into. The kind you build, one poem, one pint, one slightly unhinged evening at a time.

To every performer, every first-timer, every familiar face, and every person who squeezed through that door: **you are what makes Rhymes on the Rocks what it is.**

We came to air our skeletons and somehow left with our hearts a little fuller.

Same time next month, you glorious bunch of weirdos. 🖤

OCT OPEN MIC - 💀SKELETONS IN YOUR CLOSET💀We’ve all got them.The ex we don’t mention. The phase we pretend didn’t happen....
02/10/2026

OCT OPEN MIC - 💀SKELETONS IN YOUR CLOSET💀

We’ve all got them.

The ex we don’t mention. The phase we pretend didn’t happen. The family story that gets suspiciously quiet halfway through. The thing we did in 2009 that occasionally returns at 2am to remind us it happened.

This October, we’re dragging it all into the light.

And joining us as our headliner is Stu Freestone — performance poet, storyteller, co-founder of York’s Say Owt and author of ‘The Lights That Blur Between’. Stu’s poetry moves between love, loss, growing up, getting things wrong and finding the funny in all of it. He’s appeared on BBC platforms and shared stages with Shane Koyczan and Hollie McNish.

Bring us your ghosts, your secrets, your questionable former selves — or an actual poem about a skeleton. We’re not fussy.

🗓️ Wed 14th Oct
⏰ Doors 7:30pm | Poetry from 8pm
📍 Eleven St Paul’s, Stamford
🎟️ £5 on the door
📝 10 open-mic slots. Audience and performers must book in advance — link in bio.

Come and rattle some bones with us. 💀

It's National Poetry Day today! The theme for this year is "Wonder", something we feel every time we are in safe poetry ...
01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day today! The theme for this year is "Wonder", something we feel every time we are in safe poetry spaces with extraordinary human beings. Here is a pic of some of them at Poetry Scum last week!

This is a poem about the wonder of poetry, community and courage. And growing things (and w**e 😂).

Aided by grapes, we plant a seed,
the kind that needs little care,
as we are already stretched too thin
with the demands placed upon us.

A passing thought, tossed in loose soil, between nursery runs, deadlines, dishes, rooted in the cracks of ordinary days, watered by what if? and why not?

We tell ourselves it will stay small, a window-box thing, neat and contained, something to tend on borrowed evenings with dirt still under our fingernails.

But ideas germinate in secret, splitting dark with stubborn shoots, sending roots through calendars and kitchens, claiming space we did not mean to give.

Hours mulch into weeks fifteen, twenty, thirty a month composted from sleep, from quiet, from the edges of ourselves.

We prune and plan, stake fragile stems upright, send invitations like scattering seed into the uncertain weather of inboxes.

Some days the ground feels barren, attendance a frost on tender leaves, and we wonder if this patch of earth was ever meant to hold us.

But still we turn up with watering cans, hands muddy with volunteer hours, feeding the roots with faith alone, trusting growth before it shows.

And then, green. Voices pushing through the surface, poems flowering in borrowed rooms, strangers gathering like bees.

What started over w**e and weariness has grown wild around our ankles: a garden we made from nothing but time we did not have to spare.

Now each month we kneel in its soil, planting space for others to bloom, learning that some seeds ask everything before they ever bear fruit.

Read upside down if that’s your thing.Nobody at Rhymes on the Rocks is keeping score.We’re there for the words, not the ...
17/09/2026

Read upside down if that’s your thing.

Nobody at Rhymes on the Rocks is keeping score.
We’re there for the words, not the delivery method.

However you share your work, you’ll find a warm room waiting.

📅 Every second Wednesday
📍 Eleven St Paul’s, Stamford
🎤 New poets always welcome.

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’re not impressed by a poem that’s only trying to provoke.The poems people remember aren’t alw...
11/09/2026

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’re not impressed by a poem that’s only trying to provoke.

The poems people remember aren’t always the loudest.

They’re the honest ones.
The clever ones.
The ones that leave a mark long after the applause.

Join us every second Wednesday at 7:30pm.
📍 Eleven St Pauls, Stamford

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’ve all been there. One brilliant poem can have you rehearsing on the drive home, in the showe...
08/09/2026

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’ve all been there. One brilliant poem can have you rehearsing on the drive home, in the shower and while making a cup of tea.

What’s the last poem that made you think, I have to read this out? BRING IT TOMORRROOOOWWWW

Join us tomorrow at 7:30pm.
📍 Eleven St Pauls, Stamford
🍸 Cocktails. Poetry. Community.

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’d rather hear a risky poem that doesn’t quite land than a safe one that says nothing.Nobody g...
07/09/2026

At Rhymes on the Rocks, we’d rather hear a risky poem that doesn’t quite land than a safe one that says nothing.

Nobody grows by playing it safe.

Take the chance.
Write the weird one.

Join us Wednesday at 7:30pm.
📍 Eleven St Pauls, Stamford
🍸 Cocktails. Poetry. Community.

Rhymes on the Rocks (Rhymes on the Rocks (Kia and Emmy))

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