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On staying motivated

by Robin Houghton on February 16, 2017

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It’s one of those tricky periods right now. The poetry honeymoon is well and truly over. I’m existing on a handful of acceptances (for which I am humbly grateful). I’m…

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TGI February

by Robin Houghton on February 6, 2017

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January is really my least favourite month – I think it’s the short days and dark evenings that are so depressing.  It doesn’t help that the it’s the month of…

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Giving up Facebook for at least a month

by Robin Houghton on December 31, 2016

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Today is my last day on Facebook for a while. I was inspired by Dan Blank’s recent blog post about the importance of ‘investing in white space’ in our lives: time…

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End of year gratitude & resolutions

by Robin Houghton on December 30, 2016

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Is this the blogging equivalent of the Christmas round robin? If so, I confess I rather like receiving them. I honestly quite like reading about relatives of relatives I’ve never…

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Poetry vs DIY, plus a few upcoming deadlines

by Robin Houghton on November 24, 2016

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It’s easy to lose the rhythm of blogging – I’ve been lacking the motivation lately, partly out of a feeling of ‘what is there really to say that makes a…

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To travel hopefully…

by Robin Houghton on September 25, 2016

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..as a teenager I remember being set this title as the subject of an essay competition, and I charged off on what I thought would surely be the winning entry.…

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Individual poems v collections – still on the learning curve

by Robin Houghton on August 29, 2016

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Putting together a collection of poems is proving to be harder than I ever expected. For a while now I’ve had a number of poems on a theme, which originally I…

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Stuff I wasn’t going to talk about here

by Robin Houghton on July 22, 2016

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I think blogging is like all kinds of writing in that one has ebbs and flows – of ideas, of energy, of motivation. If I were to take my own…

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What I’ve been reading… Kei Miller’s ‘Cartographer’

by Robin Houghton on June 24, 2016

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At the library I recently picked up Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet 2014), and it proved to be one of those books you…

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Thank you, Dr Upadhayay

by Robin Houghton on May 27, 2016

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I was one of those lucky people who enjoyed school, and whose English teachers (and I will name them, by way of a belated thank you – Dr Upadhayay and…

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