Yes, you heard correctly … We’re rounding up our 2025-26 season with an ALL OPEN MIC event – so get your reading & writing muscles working & make your bid to grace the stage! Shore Poets Honorary President Tom Pow will steer us through an elementally themed evening, in which readers are invited to pair a poem by another writer which deals, directly or indirectly, with one of the four elements (earth, wind, water, fire) with a poem of their own addressing either the same or a different element. Seeking inspiration to write that summer solstice poem? Or to pen the definitive ode to the barbecue, your local Victorian baths, mulch, manure, or one of the many Scottish categories of gale? We bring you the perfect spur!
We have up to ten 5-minute slots available on a first come, first served basis – so do get in touch as soon as ever you please, at shorepoetsedinburgh @ gmail.com (remove the gaps), to ensure you’re among the band of bards helping us toast another fine year’s roster of performances and craic. With music by the exquisitely named Saturn the Goddess, and a range of raffle prizes, some of them food for the body, some for the mind … Further details below! 🌻💨🐳🔥🎤
The When & the Where:
Thursday 25th June, 2026
7.15pm – 9pm (doors open 7pm)
The Waverley Bar, 3-5 St Mary’s St, Edinburgh EH1 1TA
Admission: Our standard entrance charges are £7.50 (waged) and £5 (concession). This includes one raffle ticket, which will also be your receipt of entry. For those keen to increase their chances of a raffle win, we’ve also introduced a Golden Ticket: at £10, this covers entry plus five raffle tickets. Entry is payable by either card or cash.
The Raffle:
Entry includes a raffle ticket; additional tickets are also available to buy when you arrive, should you wish to increase your chances of winning this month’s scrummy lemon cake. Or you can boost the odds of snaffling that piece of home-baked glory by purchasing one of our Golden Tickets (further details above, under ‘The When & the Where’). The raffle also frequently boasts other no less wonderful but definitely less edible prizes, in the form of pamphlets or books.
See you there!
Shore Poets 
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