Robin Houghton

The updated poetry magazines submissions spreadsheet and my 1,000th subscriber

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 […]

Blog/ 16/04/2021

End of my first year on the MA Poetry & Poetics On Tuesday I submitted my Spring term essay (HURRAH!), and well before […]

I’m expecting my granddaughter to be offered a book deal any time now. Last week she gave me a card with a question […]

Blog/ 27/03/2021

I recently had a text from one of my stepdaughters who was passing on a question from her five-year-old: “Nana, how are poems […]

It’s been a busy few weeks. To tell the truth, I’m feeling a little over-exposed. You know how annoying it is: Poet X […]