Blog – Page 20 – Robin Houghton

Currently influenced by…Whitman, the sea & being unproductive

This is the first of a new series of posts inspired by Anthony Wilson’s fascinating ‘notebook’ posts, in which he shares phrases, thoughts, […]

I’ve noticed there are a number of poetry competitions about to close – January seems to be a competition battleground. I’ve talked about the […]

Blog/ 22/01/2018

Exciting times. My third pamphlet (counting ‘Foot Wear‘ as one) All the Relevant Gods is here. A box of copies arrived last week, so now […]

Blog/ 20/01/2018

Hardly seems like a week ago that Peter Kenny and I dared travel to London’s Southbank for the annual T S Eliot Prize […]

Blog/ 09/01/2018

It seems to be the thing at the moment when it comes to ‘picking a name out of the hat’ to make a […]

This is my wrap-up post for 2017 – I’ve enjoyed other people’s posts but have been increasingly wondering whether I’ve anything else to […]

Blog/ 21/12/2017

I’m back from an (almost) flying trip to Liverpool, a city about 300 miles north of where I live, for a five minute […]

Blog/ 16/12/2017

I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s […]

Things move quickly in the magazine world so I thought I would update my spreadsheet quarterly. This is the list of UK poetry […]

Blog/ 19/11/2017

Sorry about the title of this post – no, wait – never apologise! As I wrote it I was thinking ‘Hugh, Pugh, Barney […]