Readings – Page 10 – Robin Houghton

Catherine Smith’s The New Cockaigne

Last week I managed to grab the last available chair upstairs at The Lewes Arms for the first performance of Catherine Smith’s The […]

I’ve been busy with work stuff lately so just a quick update. I had another rejection from The Poetry Review (but a nice note […]

October is my favourite month, partly because it’s the start of the run-up to Christmas with all sorts of musical things to come, […]

I must stop trying too hard with blog post titles. What’s with the ‘fest’/’feast’ thing? Stop me, somebody. Anyway, I’m now musing on […]

A quick update before I make my way to Swindon Festival of Poetry via lunch in Newbury with my sister-in-law. The Telltale Press public launch […]

Someone posted recently on Twitter that poetry seemed to be “mostly about reading, writing and waiting”. I know I’ve certainly had that kind […]

Yikes, the poetry world can be dangerous place, can’t it? Who’d be one of those poor ‘Next Generation Poets‘? Blimey. I wonder if people forget […]

Ooh, poetry books. Trestle tables. Shouty snatches of conversation trying to be heard in the hubbub. “I wasn’t sure about his last collection, it […]

Hurray! First of all I managed to snag a place on the Don Share workshop in October in Swindon (before it sold out) […]

It was a lovely evening at the Poetry Cafe last night – and a very high standard of readings I felt – there was music […]