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At the Plastic Bag Museum

by Robin Houghton on July 3, 2012

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these are the things that carried the stuff that people bought see those loops for hands – handles they’re called naturally they never carried boxes the corners would poke through…

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Bumper latest news

by Robin Houghton on July 2, 2012

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Lots been happening lately. Firstly, my good friend and very talented poet Charlotte Gann was shortlisted for the Michael Marks pamphlet award. Although she was pipped at the post it…

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Hurrah! The Rialto takes another

by Robin Houghton on June 12, 2012

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So excited to have had a poem accepted for The Rialto. The first poem I had published was in this magazine (Rialto 70, Autumn 2010) and to say that I was…

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Back

by Robin Houghton on June 10, 2012

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I haven’t posted here in a while, I actually took the blog ‘private’ for a few months, after a conversation with Catherine Smith about poets and blogging… she argued strongly…

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When my sister is old

by Robin Houghton on April 6, 2012

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I will wait at the door with flowers if she greets me at all it will be brief and cold as the Guildford house where the stairs stayed uncarpeted and…

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Invasion

by Robin Houghton on March 4, 2012

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It took three rows of barbed wire coiled round stakes, hammered at angles into sand and shingle. The beach packed and leaking like keddle nets of cockles in green buckets,…

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The ups and downs of poetry submissions

by Robin Houghton on January 17, 2012

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Last week: issue 48 of The North failed to arrive, and when I asked for my ‘contributor’s copy’ I was told…erm… you’re not a contributor. The poem they’d asked for…

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River Ouse, Rodmell, 1941

by Robin Houghton on December 3, 2011

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The first she prises out, clenched in bindweed: reluctance adds to its appeal. And there: not so large as to burst pockets, several flints conspire their surfaces glass-perfect, all the…

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