Robin Houghton

New poem up at Ink, Sweat & Tears

I’m very pleased that Helen Ivory chose my poem ‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ for Ink, Sweat & Tears recently. It’s […]

I’ve just finished trawling through hundreds of poetry magazine websites. It’s my quarterly mission: to update the spreadsheet that I send out to […]

Blog/ 29/05/2024

When you login to your blog and see there are 16 updates required it can only mean one thing – it’s been a […]

Blog/ 21/04/2024

Look what arrived for me while I was away on a yoga-vegan-retreat in Spain (yup! That’s where I took this photo!) – Snow, […]

Art/ 19/03/2024

I’m not sure I’ve ever really celebrated World Poetry Day, which was apparently adopted by UNESCO in 1999 with the aim of “supporting […]

This is not my favourite time of year I confess, although I love all the early signs of Spring – the first sunny […]

Art/ 09/01/2024

I know, I know – not that Julian of Norwich quote again, I hear you say. But it’s the start of the year, […]

Art/ 12/12/2023

Ah, Christmas. Busy busy. I still haven’t made a nice door wreath but when it stops raining I’ll be up the garden gathering […]

Blog/ 08/11/2023

It’s been a busy few weeks. Planet Poetry is two episodes into Season 4 and I’ve currently got three interviews to record before […]

Blog/ 10/10/2023

I like the word shenanigans, don’t you? Although as I just check its meaning I see it can mean underhand goings-on. I don’t […]