Blog – Page 24 – Robin Houghton

TS Eliot Prize – workshop & readings

Katy Evans-Bush‘s TS Eliot shortlist workshop is fast becoming an institution. Now in its sixth year, it’s a fine precursor to the Prize […]

Blog/ 11/01/2017

This month I’m setting myself the ‘start a poem a day’ challenge. (Not ‘write’ a poem a day, as that presumes each one […]

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 […]

Is this the blogging equivalent of the Christmas round robin? If so, I confess I rather like receiving them. I honestly quite like […]

Blog/ 23/12/2016

I have a much longer ‘end of year’ post lined up but for now I thought I’d post a quick subs update for […]

An interesting book came my way from Bloodaxe recently – a book of books, you might call it, or perhaps an anthology of […]

Getting to and from London from the south coast is ten times harder than it used to be these days, as the rail company […]

It’s easy to lose the rhythm of blogging – I’ve been lacking the motivation lately, partly out of a feeling of ‘what is […]

It’s always a joy to hear poet friend Charlotte giving a reading. There’s a weight to her voice, a rootedness … it’s hard […]

On becoming a poet in Australia, putting images in the wrong order, and John Ashbery’s baskets: in conversation with Marion Tracy. When I […]