Robin Houghton

Blog/ 15/09/2017

Those poetry ‘banned words’ again

Another perennial topic that poets always seem to enjoy debating – what are the ‘banned’ words? The word ‘shard’ came up the other […]

September always feels like a new start, and as I’m gearing up to a pamphlet launch in early 2018 I’m trying to get […]

Blog/ 05/09/2017

Thank you to everyone who requested the PDF of submissions windows, and all the lovely comments. I’m very pleased that it’s useful. Thank […]

Blog/ 29/08/2017

It’s been a while since I updated my last year’s post on this topic and I decided it was worth starting from scratch, […]

In my last post I explained that although I haven’t seriously tried submitting to US poetry journals, I’d like to, and have started […]

You know how it happens – you start following a link, then you get so engrossed in something you end up forgetting about […]

A slew of poetry magazines have been arriving the last couple of weeks and I’ve enjoyed ‘discovering’ work by new names. Well, new […]

Blog/ 23/07/2017

Members of the poetry world are aghast at a recently published ‘Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales’. It’s a […]

Blog/ 08/07/2017

There’s been a flurry of poetry events lately and lovely things happening. Hastings Stanza reading A couple of weeks back the Hastings Poetry […]

Blog/ 21/06/2017

It’s the longest day of the year here, and the hottest. I love these long days and warm evenings and we’ve been making […]