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T S Eliot shortlisted poetry collections – reviews

by Robin Houghton on January 10, 2013

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I confess haven’t read all the collections shortlisted for this year’s T S Eliot Prize. But I’ve trawled for informative reviews of each, in order to at least have an…

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More holiday reading

by Robin Houghton on December 30, 2012

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I’m enjoying Ted Hughes Letters and can see it going on well into 2013. Other reading matter that has crept into the bedroom includes The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, which…

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Holiday reading part 1: Ted & Sylvia

by Robin Houghton on December 20, 2012

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Christmas. I wish I could play up to the seasonal stereotype of the busy ‘mum’ with a house full of over-excited children and the prospect of hoards of rellies to…

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First poetry reading group – Ní Chuilleanáin, Feaver, Wilkinson

by Robin Houghton on December 4, 2012

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There’s nothing  quite like reading poetry to stimulate writing – something it took me many years to discover. So I was very pleased when Brighton Stanza member Miriam Patrick proposed…

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Where were the ‘Best of British’ poems first published?

by Robin Houghton on November 6, 2012

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Poet friend of mine and soon-to-be-blogger Jo Grigg mentioned she had been reading The Best British Poetry 2012 so I invited her to write about it here. It is Jo’s first…

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Readings, launches, and the Carmen Rollers

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2012

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  Lots of excitement in the past week. First of all, National Poetry Day and the launch of the Frogmore Press anthology Poems from the Old Hill on Thursday evening.…

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Smith, McCullough, Curtis, Lasky at the Red Roaster

by Robin Houghton on September 2, 2012

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Lovely evening last week at the Red Roaster in Brighton, for the launch of Abi Curtis’s new collection The GlassDelusion. Not too crowded, some familiar faces and a really nice…

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Upcoming poetry events in Lewes, Brighton & Seaford…

by Robin Houghton on August 23, 2012

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Very pleased to be invited by Tom Roper to be one of the poets reading at Seaford Live this year on September 12th. Last year I did the open mic.…

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Now all roads lead to France

by Robin Houghton on August 2, 2012

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My book group friends aren’t really into poetry. At all. But someone suggested we read Matthew Hollis’s biography of the last years of Edward Thomas, ‘Now all roads lead to…

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T S Eliot prize winner

by Robin Houghton on January 17, 2012

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We saw him read on Sunday evening, alongside the other shortlisted poets. He was great, my money was on either him or Carol Ann Duffy to win (although I confess…

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