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Mags & Blogs/ 19/09/2012

Rejected but not cowed

Oh well … I kind of suspected that the stuff I sent to Poetry London wasn’t going to blow Colette Brice’s socks off. […]

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Robin Houghton presenting at Pecha Kucha Night Brighton
Readings/ 17/09/2012

Brighton Pecha Kucha Night

Last Friday I was one of the presenters at Pecha Kucha Night at the Lighthouse in Brighton. If you’re not familiar with what it’s […]

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Close encounter on the Tube
Mags & Blogs/ 12/09/2012

Close encounter

So there I was yesterday lunchtime getting on a tube at Oxford Circus on my way to Victoria and home, when I overhear […]

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The Glass Delusion by Abi Curtis
Books/ 02/09/2012

Smith, McCullough, Curtis, Lasky at the Red Roaster

Lovely evening last week at the Red Roaster in Brighton, for the launch of Abi Curtis’s new collection The GlassDelusion. Not too crowded, […]

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Books/ 23/08/2012

Upcoming poetry events in Lewes, Brighton & Seaford…

Very pleased to be invited by Tom Roper to be one of the poets reading at Seaford Live this year on September 12th. […]

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Angst/ 19/08/2012

Writing musings/ submissions etc

I’ve been grabbing the odd hour here and there to write while my other half watches the cricket highlights each day. I need […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 14/08/2012

Out now – The Rialto 75

The Rialto: bedside reading for this week at least. Very proud that I have a poem in it on page 50. The Last […]

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Serendipity/ 13/08/2012

Summer holiday – some beautiful places we’ve been

The video of the bees going about their buzzi-ness, the manor house and the waterlilies were taken at Great Chalfield in Wiltshire, an […]

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Books/ 02/08/2012

Now all roads lead to France

My book group friends aren’t really into poetry. At all. But someone suggested we read Matthew Hollis’s biography of the last years of […]

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Angst/ 21/07/2012

Writing again after a setback

A few weeks ago I was feeling a bit ‘stuck’ and decided to pay for another ‘Poetry Prescription’ from the Poetry Society. I […]

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