Writing – Page 13 – Robin Houghton

Getting the pamphlet in order

Although I did enter the Mslexia pamphlet competition last year I did feel a bit like I was scraping the barrel for poems. […]

I’m about halfway through my mission to write (or at least start) a poem a day. I wish I could say it’s been […]

Form/ 25/02/2013

So what do we think of sestinas? A fun exercise? A thankless exercise? A beautiful form best used sparingly? Hackneyed tell-tale sign of […]

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

Confession: my poem-a-day pledge has stuttered. I’ve actually been a bit ill, although there’s little evidence for it, and if I worked a […]

When talking to writers I meet at workshops and readings, the question of what I do for a living sometimes gets asked. And […]

After my recent musings on answering the ‘what does it mean’ question, I was happy to come across this in the Letters of […]

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

After a chat with a wonderful poet friend yesterday I had a bit of a lightbulb moment (albeit over a couple of […]

Yesterday was one of those days when I felt I should have been working (ie paid work), but instead was faffing about with […]