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To Liverpool, 28 drafts later

by Robin Houghton on September 20, 2017

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It’s wonderful how software like Illustrator allows non-designers like me a chance to play around with layout, typefaces and graphic design. I really value how digital has made good quality…

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Ty Newydd and the ‘retired hobbyists’ – a few thoughts

by Robin Houghton on July 23, 2017

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Members of the poetry world are aghast at a recently published ‘Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales’. It’s a long document (over 200 pages) but there’s…

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Recipe for Water

by Robin Houghton on June 4, 2017

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Yes that probably sounds familiar, being the title of the 2009 collection by Gillian Clarke. I’ve been thinking a lot about water lately, and flow – great rivers, the mouths of…

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Eyewear Anthology launch & a scary flashback

by Robin Houghton on April 3, 2017

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This one is dedicated to my good friend Lucy, who often comes with me to London poetry readings. I’ve taken her to standing-room only upstairs rooms in Victorian pubs, damp basements…

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Slam Dunk at the Printworks in Hastings

by Robin Houghton on January 27, 2017

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Last night I took the train (yes! there and back! and only slight delays!) to Hastings to Slam Dunk, a regular poetry night at the Printworks, where Hastings Stanza rep…

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At the South Downs Poetry Festival

by Robin Houghton on July 25, 2016

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When Tim Dawes came to Lewes just a few months ago to talk about his plans for a South Downs Poetry Festival, I admit I was sceptical about whether it…

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Some poetry readings etc in next two weeks…

by Robin Houghton on June 29, 2016

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Just a quick shout out for some poetry readings & events coming up in the next couple of weeks … we’re always being told how people turn to poetry in…

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Readings, talks, good poetry stuff on the horizon

by Robin Houghton on March 10, 2016

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Last Thursday I was at Roehampton University where I’d been invited by Principal Lecturer Louise Tondeur to talk to her Creative Writing students about Telltale Press, collaborative working, the importance…

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Post-TS Eliot Prize post, and a tale of two gaffes

by Robin Houghton on January 19, 2016

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The first two and a half weeks of January have been a bit of a poetry whirl (in the sense of lots of events) and although I’m now happy I’m…

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Aldeburgh Poetry Festival de-brief

by Robin Houghton on November 9, 2015

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And so the inevitable Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog post. You’ve probably read a post or two on the subject already, or at least seen the Facebook/Twitter storm of “wasn’t it…

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