Blog – Page 9 – Robin Houghton

A sick kitty, Arvon, podcasting and MA latest

Help! I’m just emerging from a fraught couple of weeks. Two weeks ago our cat Bobby suddenly developed a life-threatening condition. He’d only […]

Stats are funny old things. Stats, data, whatever you want to call it. On their own of course, or deprived of context, they […]

One of the (very few) good things to have come from this whole lo****wn is being able to attend launches and readings that […]

Blog/ 20/05/2021

You know how I’m a bit of a sucker for interesting poetry formats? Well, I’ve often wondered what The A3 Review was all […]

The sun is shining and I’m going to be gardening this afternoon. The weather is becoming less glacial and I may even be […]

Blog/ 23/04/2021

This morning I was looking through the National Trust news and came across the latest Spring initiative, #blossomwatch, in which they are asking […]

Blog/ 22/04/2021

Earlier this week I found myself pulling out old poems as well as some recent work, and giving them a bit of a […]

Blog/ 16/04/2021

End of my first year on the MA Poetry & Poetics On Tuesday I submitted my Spring term essay (HURRAH!), and well before […]

Blog/ 27/03/2021

I recently had a text from one of my stepdaughters who was passing on a question from her five-year-old: “Nana, how are poems […]

It’s been a busy few weeks. To tell the truth, I’m feeling a little over-exposed. You know how annoying it is: Poet X […]