Robin Houghton

Blog/ 30/07/2021

Currently reading & other summery (?) things

The weather has been a bit rubbish here so I’ve been catching up on some reading and writing. Magazines tend to drop through […]

Blog/ 22/07/2021

Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. […]

Blog/ 13/07/2021

There have been some interesting launches and other events in the last few weeks. I suppose all those books that were out last […]

Help! I’m just emerging from a fraught couple of weeks. Two weeks ago our cat Bobby suddenly developed a life-threatening condition. He’d only […]

Stats are funny old things. Stats, data, whatever you want to call it. On their own of course, or deprived of context, they […]

One of the (very few) good things to have come from this whole lo****wn is being able to attend launches and readings that […]

Blog/ 20/05/2021

You know how I’m a bit of a sucker for interesting poetry formats? Well, I’ve often wondered what The A3 Review was all […]

The sun is shining and I’m going to be gardening this afternoon. The weather is becoming less glacial and I may even be […]

Blog/ 23/04/2021

This morning I was looking through the National Trust news and came across the latest Spring initiative, #blossomwatch, in which they are asking […]

Blog/ 22/04/2021

Earlier this week I found myself pulling out old poems as well as some recent work, and giving them a bit of a […]