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‘The Fishermen’s Farewell’ by Robin Robertson

by Robin Houghton on April 22, 2014

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Now that I’m enjoying a brief work hiatus (book submission made yesterday, drum-roll please) I’m hoping to catch up on my reading. This morning I picked up Hill of Doors…

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Harry Man’s ‘telesue’ from Lift

by Robin Houghton on March 19, 2014

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Just as I was umming and ahhing about doing a video blog post in which I would read something from Harry Man’s pamphlet ‘Lift’ (tall-lighthouse), I learn that it’s been…

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Something completely different – sound poetry

by Robin Houghton on October 21, 2013

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I was just reading this post on Rebecca Gethin’s blog and from there followed a link to Hannah Silva’s blog, which led me to watch some videos of her performing.…

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Faber Social: Sam Riviere, Joe Dunthorne, Luke Wright, Ruth Padel

by Robin Houghton on September 25, 2013

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It was a arts-studenty sort of scene last night at the Faber Social in London: a narrow basement room, concrete floor, a sweaty mix of music and conversation growing in…

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Audio poem (an experiment)

by Robin Houghton on September 19, 2013

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I was inspired by Mark Hewitt’s performance of ‘expiry tbc‘ the other evening here in Lewes. It was actually a 3-person production featuring Peter Copley on live (and looped) cello,…

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Seamus Heaney. Just my 2p-worth

by Robin Houghton on September 2, 2013

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What a very sad loss. I think I’d be useless as an obituary writer, as anything I’ve tried writing about the death of Seamus Heaney just sounds crass or obvious.…

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audio Form Writing

Setting words to music

by Robin Houghton on August 25, 2013

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  What do you think about setting poetry to music? (As opposed to writing song lyrics, I suppose). Personally I rather baulk at the thought of something I’d written being…

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New poem on Ink, Sweat & Tears

by Robin Houghton on March 27, 2013

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Very nice of Helen Ivory to take ‘Left’, for Ink, Sweat & Tears. It’s the closest thing to a love poem I’ve written, I think. Whether it was appreciated as such…

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