Robin Houghton

Being on the happy side of a fine line, and other August musings

August. Already. Do you remember how summer holidays seemed in childhood – a long holiday starting late July (for those of us in […]

After a couple of weeks of what’s felt like full-on socialising in our sunny garden, I’m enjoying a quiet day alone catching up, […]

Blog/ 07/07/2019

Well hello! I am feeling epic. Not because I’ve suddenly won some dough or got a call from Faber. No! Health update (feel […]

Blog/ 24/06/2019

The new edition of Magma, edited by Benedict Newbery and Pauline Sewards, is dedicated to ‘work’, a subject close to my heart. It’s always […]

… Fourth Impression (1965) with a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Hogarth Press! Original dust jacket bearing Vanessa Bell’s design! I found it at […]

Blog/ 16/06/2019

Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic came through the post from the Poetry Book Society, swathed in accolades. Looking at the title my first thought […]

I’m just updating the quarterly poetry magazines submissions windows list, but it won’t be going out for a couple of days, so just […]

Blogging and writing have been a bit off my radar lately as I am still struggling with a back problem which makes sitting […]

Blog/ 19/05/2019

I’m not sure where the month has gone – somewhere out the door together with the gardening, the yoga and the Spring days […]

Blog/ 30/04/2019

I first met Jan Heritage at the house of the late and much missed Jo Grigg. Jo was the coordinator of the Brighton […]