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Readings this coming week, Planet Poetry & Uni stuff

by Robin Houghton on January 8, 2021
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Today feels like a desk-work day even though the sun is shining outside – we did go for a long walk on the Downs yesterday and I always need a…

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Free Verse at Conway Hall

by Robin Houghton on February 23, 2020
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Up to London yesterday for the The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair aka Free Verse, at a new time of year (February rather than September) and back at Conway Hall.…

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Music, art, poetry launch and a party

by Robin Houghton on February 16, 2020
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It’s February. It’s rainy and windy. What better reason for arty distractions? On Wednesday we slipped over to Chichester to see The Sixteen perform Handel’s Acis & Galatea in the…

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Working from (a temporary) home

by Robin Houghton on August 23, 2019
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I’m currently working each morning from a little B&B room in a farmhouse in Pembrokeshire, while Nick is here playing the organ for St David’s Cathedral. Apart from occasionally getting…

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London Undercurrents at Clapham Bookshop

by Robin Houghton on August 16, 2019
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Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire have been collaborating on London Undercurrents for a number of years and I was delighted when it was published by Holland Park Press earlier this year.…

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Poems, schmoems. Couple acceptances, a bit of rejection but hey.

by Robin Houghton on July 7, 2019
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Well hello! I am feeling epic. Not because I’ve suddenly won some dough or got a call from Faber. No! Health update (feel free to skip!) You may recall my…

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Estuary English

by Robin Houghton on April 11, 2019
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It seems as if class and regional differences are very much to the fore at the moment. No surprise there I suppose, nor the increased discussion of accent as a…

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Back from Ireland

by Robin Houghton on March 29, 2019
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The rest of my week at the Cork Poetry Festival was brilliant – I want to say that right away as a few people were worried about me after my…

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Home again, and deadlines approaching

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2018
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The Swindon Poetry Festival over, I’m now catching up with stuff, looking at my book purchases (actually there are a couple of books I still need to buy, not being…

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And so to the Tent Palace…

by Robin Houghton on October 3, 2018
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… of the Delicious Air. This will be the venue from tomorrow until Monday for the Poetry Swindon Festival (or is that the Swindon Poetry Festival? It seems to go…

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