Blog – Page 29 – Robin Houghton

Blog/ 21/02/2016

Quick update – submissions, good news, real life stuff

The big news this week is that we finally completed our purchase of the new flat, and we’re now wondering what we can […]

Blog/ 05/02/2016

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Blog/ 31/01/2016

One of the fascinating things about blog stats is seeing which posts take off over time and just seem to keep attracting visits. […]

First: general ‘how I’m feeling’ stuff, feel free to skip down if you’re short of time Apologies for the silence these last few days. The usual […]

If you’ve been at a reading I’ve given you may have heard the snooker poem… it’s a bit of fun, my homage to […]

The first two and a half weeks of January have been a bit of a poetry whirl (in the sense of lots of […]

Ah! Poetry competitions. Love ’em, hate ’em? It helps when you win something occasionally, admit it. Sadly, the stats are against us, but […]

Blog/ 09/01/2016

As the wind howls outside and the next five-day block of rain chunters towards our heads, I’m feeling very grateful for some poetry […]

Blog/ 03/01/2016

Happy New Year, and welcome to the rest of your life. May it be a long, healthy and happy one. Had a nice […]

Delighted to see my ‘night before Christmas’ poem on Abegail Morley’s The Poetry Shed today! Huge thanks!