Mags & Blogs – Page 5 – Robin Houghton

On a literary education (or lack of), dealing with the social media hate-storms, etc

Is it the end of June already? I wonder how you’re getting on. Well, I hope. If you need a shot of positivity, […]

Blog/ 02/06/2020

It’s out – the latest list of UK & Irish poetry magazines with their URLs, submission windows info and other stuff. There are […]

And so it goes on Life has settled into a gentle daily routine, namely breakfast (in the garden most days until this cold […]

How are you doing? Apparently we’re now all feasting on The Repair Shop and reruns of The Vicar of Dibley. The skies are […]

Funny how quickly our vocabulary grows around novel situations. A few weeks ago I’m not sure I was familiar with the terms social […]

Blog/ 28/01/2020

Epigraphs, we’re told, are risky – they have a habit of upstaging the poem that follows. But the quote from William Blake is […]

Blog/ 01/12/2019

So, I made it to December without a drop of alcohol passing my lips! I hope you are impressed, because I am. Today […]

Day Four of No-booze-vember and I’m thinking of making an advent calendar to count down the days to when I’m allowed a glass […]

Ooh. Lots of interesting discussion & comment around my last post. Thank you to everyone who engaged! (Feels a bit of a sham/shame […]

Blog/ 01/09/2019

It’s that time again! I’ve updated the list of UK poetry magazines and it’s gone out to everyone who has requested it, as […]