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Tending seedlings & taking comfort from ‘wee granny’

by Robin Houghton on April 6, 2020
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I hope you’re well in body and spirit. If you’re anything like me you’re trying not to overdose on news and focus instead on Spring! Last week’s Hastings Stanza poetry…

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As the world moves online

by Robin Houghton on March 29, 2020
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Wow, things are changing so quickly it’s hard to believe – for example, how people are getting themselves online – to teach, to meet, to try new things, but mostly…

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At least Spring isn’t cancelled

by Robin Houghton on March 24, 2020
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There’s something about the sun coming out that puts a positive spin on everything. I’ve even taken to going for a bit of a jog on the seafront. With gym…

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Making, moving, cleaning, reading, studying, growing … life while social distancing

by Robin Houghton on March 16, 2020
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Funny how quickly our vocabulary grows around novel situations. A few weeks ago I’m not sure I was familiar with the terms social distancing, self-isolation or elbow bump. Now –…

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Fabulous reading arranged by super-supportive publisher Live Canon

by Robin Houghton on March 13, 2020
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Last weekend I had the great pleasure of a trip to London with my fellow Telltale poets, Peter Kenny & Sarah Barnsley. Live Canon, who published my pamphlet ‘Why?’ last…

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New update to the UK poetry mags submissions list. Also Spring coming soon.

by Robin Houghton on March 2, 2020
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Yesterday I sent out the latest update to the magazines subs list, which if you’re on my mailing list you should have received, so let me know if not. There…

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Free Verse at Conway Hall

by Robin Houghton on February 23, 2020
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Up to London yesterday for the The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair aka Free Verse, at a new time of year (February rather than September) and back at Conway Hall.…

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Music, art, poetry launch and a party

by Robin Houghton on February 16, 2020
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It’s February. It’s rainy and windy. What better reason for arty distractions? On Wednesday we slipped over to Chichester to see The Sixteen perform Handel’s Acis & Galatea in the…

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Rejections, invitations, forthcoming events & what I’m reading

by Robin Houghton on February 10, 2020
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Despite feeling quite positive about what I’m writing at the moment, I’ve started the year with rejections from two magazines. As usual, when I checked what it was I sent…

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Sin Cycle, a new poetry sequence from Peter Kenny

by Robin Houghton on January 28, 2020
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Epigraphs, we’re told, are risky – they have a habit of upstaging the poem that follows. But the quote from William Blake is an apt start to Peter Kenny’s Sin…

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