Poet’s Tips – Page 3 – Robin Houghton

Form/ 21/04/2013

George Szirtes workshop in Swindon

The sun was shining, it was a great day for a drive and even the M25 was a breeze. So my trip yesterday […]

Last week I was lacking inspiration, part due to work commitments and then a 3-day headache – ugh – so it was a […]

I’ve just finished reading The Letters of Ted Hughes (Faber 2007 edited by Christopher Reid). There is so much in this book that […]

Yesterday was the first of our monthly workshops with Mimi Khaltvati this year, and as usual I came away with plenty of new […]

Yesterday I was in Brighton at the Pub with No Name (which is incidentally in an area with a pub on each street […]

The weather’s terrible, I am a ‘music widow’ today and I feel the urge to reconnect with what makes poetry good, and conversely […]

Our last workshop of the year with Mimi Khalvati on Saturday, and the subjects of vowel sounds and form were big topics. Here’s […]

Here’s my round up of tips from Mimi Khalvati as recorded in my notebook on Saturday…. yours to do with as you see […]

The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don […]

Aren’t we lucky in Lewes? A bona fide A-list poet comes down here from London each month to offer her wisdom and help […]