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Catchup for a rainy day – news, upcoming etc

by Robin Houghton on August 26, 2018
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With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and that feeling of moving on to the…

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Hilda Sheehan and the Swindon Poetry Festival 2016 - Photo:Swindon Advertiser
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A forthcoming retreat | writing vs bathroom | Swindon Festival

by Robin Houghton on June 5, 2018
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Retreating Next week I’m off to the Garsdale Retreat for a week tutored by Ian Duhig and guest reader Hannah Lowe. I’m excited by the prospect of a week just…

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From Picasso to Garsdale: news roundup

by Robin Houghton on May 14, 2018
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Taking a leaf out of Peter Kenny’s book, here are seven items from the imaginary newsdesk at Kenny Houghton Towers (sorry Peter – but as Picasso said – possibly – ‘Good artists…

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Poems coming out, new anthology, currently reading etc

by Robin Houghton on April 20, 2018
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Intro/bit of a rant etc (skip this if you’d rather go straight to The Poetry stuff) Where has the month gone? (Rhetorical question.) Why am I being besieged by companies/organisations…

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Launch of poetry pamphlets at Printers Playhouse Eastbourne
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Pamphlet launch night

by Robin Houghton on February 27, 2018
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Stephen Bone and I had a blast last Thursday launching our pamphlets in Eastbourne, at the brilliant Printers Playhouse. The audience was a sea of fantastic poet friends, non-poet friends…

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The new pamphlet is here | launch details

by Robin Houghton on January 22, 2018
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Exciting times. My third pamphlet (counting ‘Foot Wear‘ as one) All the Relevant Gods is here. A box of copies arrived last week, so now I have to go about emptying it!…

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TS Eliot Prize readings 2018 - Royal Festival Hall
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TS Eliot readings, Needlewriters, some crazy January stuff

by Robin Houghton on January 20, 2018
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Hardly seems like a week ago that Peter Kenny and I dared travel to London’s Southbank for the annual T S Eliot Prize readings. Eschewing the very unreliable train service,…

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Coast to Coast to Coast issue 2 number 55
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Giveaway winner PLUS 2 tickets for the TS Eliots at bargain price

by Robin Houghton on January 9, 2018
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It seems to be the thing at the moment when it comes to ‘picking a name out of the hat’ to make a wee film of it. I can see…

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Launch of ‘Coast to Coast to Coast’ issue 2

by Robin Houghton on December 21, 2017
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I’m back from an (almost) flying trip to Liverpool, a city about 300 miles north of where I live, for a five minute poetry reading – crazy or what? Except…

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not another Dickensian Xmas
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Poems for a Christmas concert

by Robin Houghton on December 16, 2017
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I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas Night. In it, Chilcott sets…

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