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Recent reading: Hugh Dunkerley & Antony Mair

by Robin Houghton on July 30, 2018

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OK, so July wasn’t a prolific blogging month for me but I did an awful lot of gardening (well, watering), singing (in Westminster Abbey, dontcha know) and (drumroll) reading –…

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Poems coming out, new anthology, currently reading etc

by Robin Houghton on April 20, 2018

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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.) Why am I being besieged by companies/organisations…

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What I’ve been reading… Kei Miller’s ‘Cartographer’

by Robin Houghton on June 24, 2016

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At the library I recently picked up Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet 2014), and it proved to be one of those books you…

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Andrew McMillan’s ‘Physical’

by Robin Houghton on April 22, 2016

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Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of a poetry book-buying splurge lately (this –…

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The Reading List, winding up

by Robin Houghton on January 26, 2016

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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 self-employed person’s dilemma of feeling like rubbish and…

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The Reading List, week 11 – Clare Best’s ‘Cell’

by Robin Houghton on December 13, 2015

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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 a couple of weeks as other aspects…

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The Reading List week 10: Glück, Paterson, Crowther

by Robin Houghton on November 17, 2015

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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 write a 1,500 word post today?” and…

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The Reading List week 9: Malone, Maitreyabandhu, Man

by Robin Houghton on October 22, 2015

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This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the shortest titles ever. Spooky! This is the…

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The Reading List, Week 8 – McCabe, Hopkins, Skinner, Sawkins

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2015

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All the National Poetry Day euphoria over with and I’m back into the swing of The Reading List this week, and some wonderful reading to report on. Included here are…

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The Reading List, week 7 – Jack Underwood ‘Happiness’

by Robin Houghton on October 4, 2015

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  Only one book to report on in this episode of The Reading List  – there seem to be endless admin jobs involved in moving house, as well as getting out…

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