The Reading List – Robin Houghton

Recent reading: Hugh Dunkerley & Antony Mair

OK, so July wasn’t a prolific blogging month for me but I did an awful lot of gardening (well, watering), singing (in Westminster […]

Blog/ 20/04/2018

Intro/bit of a rant etc (skip this if you’d rather go straight to The Poetry stuff) Where has the month gone? (Rhetorical question.) […]

At the library I recently picked up Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet 2014), and it proved […]

Blog/ 22/04/2016

Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of […]

First: general ‘how I’m feeling’ stuff, feel free to skip down if you’re short of time Apologies for the silence these last few days. The usual […]

Blog/ 13/12/2015

It seems my blog posts of ‘micro reviews’ have set some sort of trend – who’d have thought? Anyway, I haven’t posted one for […]

Blog/ 17/11/2015

These pocket-sized reviews have been getting a bit long lately and that’s not good, because I start thinking “do I have time to […]

Blog/ 22/10/2015

This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the […]

Blog/ 09/10/2015

All the National Poetry Day euphoria over with and I’m back into the swing of The Reading List this week, and some wonderful […]

Blog/ 04/10/2015

Only one book to report on in this episode of The Reading List – there seem to be endless admin jobs involved in […]