Poems – Page 5 – Robin Houghton

Seamus Heaney. Just my 2p-worth

What a very sad loss. I think I’d be useless as an obituary writer, as anything I’ve tried writing about the death of […]

On the train to the Poetry Review launch the other week I looked through the magazine to remind myself of the poems which […]

It was a long time coming (4 months) but Under the Radar finally emailed me a standard ‘not this time’ (or possibly ever?) […]

Jo Grigg was at the Poetry cafe on Thursday for what sounds like an exciting evening! Many thanks to Jo for this guest […]

Love this poem … by Alfred Lehtinen, a Finnish poet who stopped by my blog and whose blog I’m now following.

Ah, nature. We’re very lucky in Lewes to be nestled into the South Downs, with beautiful views of rolling hills round every corner. […]

Very nice of Helen Ivory to take ‘Left’, for Ink, Sweat & Tears. It’s the closest thing to a love poem I’ve written, I […]

I’m having a very self-indulgent morning. I was hoping to listen to an episode or two of ‘Poetry Please‘ but for some reason […]

… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had […]

Dear Reader For a minute I thought I was struggling already, but the Guardian came to the rescue, or rather whoever it was […]