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03/06/2026

🎤🌚 Rhymes on the Rocks – Headliner: Lana Lane // Theme: Dark Limericks 🌝🎤
We’ve all heard limericks that make us laugh.

This month, we’re interested in what happens when they don’t.

Take the familiar rhythm and rhyme scheme of a limerick and fill it with something darker. Grief. Fear. Obsession. Heartbreak. Ghost stories. Uncomfortable truths. The state of the world. Whatever keeps you awake at night.

We’re also delighted to welcome Lana Lane as our June headliner. Lana’s work explores identity, community, resilience, and social justice, using poetry to challenge, connect, and inspire.

📅 10th June
⏰ Doors 7:30pm | Poetry from 8pm
📍 Eleven St Pauls, 11 St Paul’s St, Stamford, PE9 2BE
🎟️ £5 on the door

Everyone, including audience members, must book in advance (link in bio).

Bring us your darkest limerick.

13/05/2026

It's Rhymes tonight!

Our workshop is Directing Your Poetry (led by Kia Went) and our theme is Community Poetry Swap. If you aren't able to print your poems, please email them to [email protected] by 4pm today and we will print them for you.

We are at 11 St Paul's, doors open at 7.30pm and the poeting starts at 8pm. We can't wait to see you there!

If you have any questions, just ask :)

28/04/2026

🎤💫 Rhymes on the Rocks – Community Poetry Swap 💫🎤

For this month’s night, we’re swapping poems.

Everyone who performs will bring a poem they’ve written, then we’ll swap them around so somebody else performs it instead. You’ll get the chance to hear your own work through another person’s voice, and take on somebody else’s poem yourself.

It’s a night all about performance, interpretation, and how delivery can completely change the feeling of a piece.

We’ll also be running a short interactive workshop during the break. You’ll pair up, choose one of your poems, and experiment with direction and performance together — changing tone, pacing, pauses, emotion, and emphasis to see what shifts.

📅 13th May
⏰ Doors open 7:30pm | Poets from 8pm
📍 Eleven St Pauls, 11 St Paul’s St, Stamford, PE9 2BE
🎟️ £5 on the door
📝 Everyone must sign up in advance (audience + open mic) — link in bio

21/04/2026

Back where we belong.

Last month Rhymes on the Rocks went back to our spiritual home at 11 St Paul’s and honestly… It just felt right!

The energy was real. Warm. Open. The kind of night that reminds you why we keep showing up.

The poetry had range. Proper range. Raw, soft, angry, funny, weird in the best way. No one trying to fit a mould, just people saying what they needed to say in the way only they can. And the performances? Not “perfect”, better than that. People owning their words. Taking up space. Letting themselves be seen. And the room held them, properly.

That’s my favourite bit, I think. Watching people become more themselves in real time. You can feel the shift. New faces finding their feet. Familiar ones getting louder, braver, stronger. Strangers chatting like they’ve known each other for years by the end of the night.

And then afterwards… Those conversations that spill out into the garden. About poetry, books, writing, life. All of it. A bit chaotic, very passionate, and the kind of talk that makes you want to go home and write immediately.

This is what community looks like.

Same room. New energy. We’re building something really special.

Next one’s Wednesday May 13th; you’re very much invited.

Kia x

01/04/2026

VOTE FOR US! - Star of Stamford Community Award

We've been nominated and we'd love your support. This will help us net more funding and gain the recognition we need to build our community and keep providing everyone a space to bring their voices and share their lives in a safe space.

Please ask your friends and family to vote too!

VOTE HERE 👉 https://tinyurl.com/Vote-Rhymes

30/03/2026

🎤✨ Rhymes on the Rocks – It’s our second birthday (and we’re moving venues… again) ✨🎤
We’re so proud to be stepping into our second year—come celebrate with us 🥂

Unfortunately, due to some… surprisingly high venue fees, we’re on the move again. But in a very full-circle moment, we’re heading back home to where it all began. We’ll be at Eleven St Pauls (previously Spirits of Stamford) 💛

This month’s theme is SACRIFICE.
What does that look like for you? The quiet kind. The chosen kind. The kind that costs you something. As a parent, in pursuit of something bigger, in moments of willpower, or in the things you let go of without anyone noticing. Create a poem that exploressacrifice in your own way — big, small, messy, or meaningful.

Instead of a headliner this month, we’re doing something a bit different…
We’ll be running a live workshop where we play with wording, phrasing, and performance—showing how small changes can completely shift meaning, tone, and impact. Same poem, different feeling.

📅 Date: 8th April
⏰ Time: Doors open at 7:30 pm, poets from 8 pm
📍 Location: Eleven St Pauls, Stamford
📝 Sign up in advance for either open mic or audience - this is essential for health & safety. Only 10 open mic spots available (link in bio).o).

Sign up FREE online, £5 on the door.

26/03/2026

WE’VE BEEN NOMINATED 🥹

Rhymes on the Rocks is up for Community Group of the Year at the Stars of Stamford awards.

Honestly… this one means a lot. This night is built by everyone who’s ever come along, shared something, or just sat in the room and listened.

So now we need your help.

👉 If Rhymes has meant something to you, please take 30 seconds to vote for us: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=eS27isJboEm8cZMAlgrG4nRUIbwhaG9LkQ9uLzbL5nJUQ0U2RFEzTVVCVkJFS0ZKSkpXVVNHUlJJUS4u

Let’s see what this little poetry night can do ❤️

03/03/2026

Last month, for our Unknown Heroes theme, Declan () performed a poem about Stan Cullis in our beautiful new home at the Bull & Swan () ski chalet.

Before the Second World War, when the England team were playing in Germany as Na**sm was rising, Cullis refused to give the N**i salute. He lost his place on the team — but kept his principles.

That quiet act of refusal felt especially powerful to hear now. Not because it was loud or dramatic, but because it was steady. A reminder that integrity sometimes costs you something — and that’s the point.

This is what we love about our themes. They stretch poets. They send us digging into history. They bring stories into the room that we might never have learned otherwise.

A Wednesday night becomes a place of courage, memory and new perspective.

That’s poetry in the community. Come join us on 11th March, when we explore and perform our favourite female poets

23/02/2026

MARCH THEME: Your Favourite Female Poet 💜 ft. ✨🔥

🔥 This month’s theme: YOUR FAVOURITE FEMALE POET.
In honour of International Women’s Day, we’re focusing on female poets. Choose a poem by a female poet who shaped you, challenged you, steadied you or stayed with you — and perform her words, bringing it to life in your own voice.

Welcome back to our beautiful new home at the Bull & Swan, tucked away in their cosy ski chalet. It’s warm, intimate, and perfect for spoken word — with food served until 8.45pm and a full bar.

🎤 This month’s headliner: JAKE WILD HALL ()
Jake is an award-winning poet and author of Alanis Morissette, bringing sharp, contemporary writing shaped by humour, honesty and cultural reflection.

🗓️ Wednesday 11 March
📍 Bull & Swan, 24 High Street St Martin’s, Stamford, PE9 2LJ
⏰ Doors 7.30 | Poets 8
🚪 £3–5 entry
📝 Open mic sign-ups in advance — 10 spots only
🎟️ Everyone must book via link in bio - (health and safety reasons)

Need help on the night? We’re here to make it feel accessible — just ask.

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11 St Pauls, St Paul's Street
Stamford

Website

http://www.tinyurl.com/ror-greatest-hits

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