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Currently reading: Kaminsky, Hickman

by Robin Houghton on June 16, 2019

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Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic came through the post from the Poetry Book Society, swathed in accolades. Looking at the title my first thought was of Raymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance, also…

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Discovering poetry podcasts

by Robin Houghton on June 24, 2018

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I’ve come rather late to the podcast party, although my good friend Lucy has often sung their praises. Before my longish train journey north I decided to finally download a…

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CIB: the distraction economy, empty living rooms & a toe-dip into poetry and polemic

by Robin Houghton on March 5, 2018

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I’ve shortened ‘Currently Influenced By…’ to CIB in the titles of these posts, because there are ‘rules’ about optimum length of blog posts titles and only a small percentage of…

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Currently influenced by…Whitman, the sea & being unproductive

by Robin Houghton on February 2, 2018

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This is the first of a new series of posts inspired by Anthony Wilson’s fascinating ‘notebook’ posts, in which he shares phrases, thoughts, links to things that have struck him…

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