Poems – Page 2 – Robin Houghton

Blog/ 22/07/2021

Lighthouse launch: reading a new poem and its prequel

Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. […]

Current reading … and a parrot Camilla’s Bookshop is open again in Eastbourne after an arson attack, and I can report that the […]

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/ 16/12/2017

I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s […]

A slew of poetry magazines have been arriving the last couple of weeks and I’ve enjoyed ‘discovering’ work by new names. Well, new […]

Blog/ 04/06/2017

Yes that probably sounds familiar, being the title of the 2009 collection by Gillian Clarke. I’ve been thinking a lot about water lately, […]

Blog/ 20/03/2017

We’re into our fourth week of dust, clutter and washing up in the bath. The joys of home improvements! We still don’t have a […]

January is really my least favourite month – I think it’s the short days and dark evenings that are so depressing. It doesn’t […]

Blog/ 15/06/2016

A few months ago I sent some poems to David Caddy at Tears in the Fence. Although he didn’t take any of them […]

If you’ve been at a reading I’ve given you may have heard the snooker poem… it’s a bit of fun, my homage to […]