March 2014 – Robin Houghton

Bit of a regroup after a challenging workshop

Ever had a bad day at the poetry workshop coalface? I think I had one yesterday. Here’s what happened and what came from it. […]

6.30pm on Thursday evening, and I receive an email invitation to the National Poetry Competition and Ted Hughes Award prizegiving evening at the […]

Worth bookmarking – the Poets & Writers database of lit mags (litmagz?) Salivate over this if you dare – “listings for 977 journals, providing […]

Just taken delivery today of my new short pamphlet, The Great Vowel Shift. I’m very pleased with how it looks, and feeling kind […]

Just as I was umming and ahhing about doing a video blog post in which I would read something from Harry Man’s pamphlet […]

Just raising my head above the parapet to report that I’m about 20k words into my book and now at the point where […]

And so to Oxford, or the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Jericho, to be precise. Martin Malone took over the editorship of The Interpreter’s […]

Lots to think about in this post from Todd Swift, in which he ponders on how to sell poetry, or rather poetry books […]