On spirituality, a submission and the wonder of lists
Wow, I felt a lot of love for RS Thomas after my last blog post. I wonder if we need more spirituality today, […]
Author: Robin Houghton
In the land of RS Thomas
Back from a scorching hot week in North Wales, to which we took waterproofs, heavy duty walking boots and woollies, none of which […]
Current poetry reading and podcast prep
My phase of reading nowt but historical novels is over (for now) as I get my poetry head back on in preparation for […]
The positives of submitting less to magazines
I recently came across this blog post by Naush Sabah about why we send our poems to magazines (or not). I’m in agreement […]
In the summertime when the weather is fine…
July seemed to pass in a soggy blur How’s your summer going? As I recall, I went to several concerts last month, as […]
Round up: poems, podcast, garden, new photos…
News round-up time… written in haste, before the Wimbledon Men’s final… The Pod Peter Kenny and I have just wrapped up the last […]
Midsummer update: poetry projects, novel stuff, podcast…
It’s been a busy few weeks. Today started very well by my getting the Wordle in one – third time this year! If […]
Launches, project updates and two disputed works
The poor weather has meant I’ve not been spending time in the garden as I normally would at this time of year. Still […]
And in other writing…
Not much new to report on the poetry writing front, except for a dozen or so poems in submission (“in submission”? Should it […]
National Poetry Competition and a Finished Creatures launch
Just grabbing a few minutes on Easter Saturday to write this. There’s only so much gardening you can do before needing a break. […]