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Roundup | a good poetry week

by Robin Houghton on October 16, 2017
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Bit of a roundup post. Last Tuesday evening at West Greenwich Library I got to hear some super poems inspired by the Mary Evans Picture Library, by Sarah Westcott (who…

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digging out old poems to recycle
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Flogging old drafts – ‘do I still want to say this?’

by Robin Houghton on October 3, 2017
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No, not flogging in the sense of selling, although who knows? Maybe there’s a market for it – poets could sell their old given-up-on poems to others who might be…

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Liverpool
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To Liverpool, 28 drafts later

by Robin Houghton on September 20, 2017
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It’s wonderful how software like Illustrator allows non-designers like me a chance to play around with layout, typefaces and graphic design. I really value how digital has made good quality…

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banned words in poetry
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Those poetry ‘banned words’ again

by Robin Houghton on September 15, 2017
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Another perennial topic that poets always seem to enjoy debating – what are the ‘banned’ words? The word ‘shard’ came up the other evening at Hasting Stanza and I couldn’t…

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getting the pamphlet together
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A new pamphlet & all the angst of getting there

by Robin Houghton on April 26, 2017
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It’s taken a while coming but I’ve found a home for my second pamphlet, ‘All the Relevant Gods’. Those lovely, hardworking folks at Cinnamon Press (Jan Fortune and team) have…

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blue sky & gull on the seafront
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What’s inspired me recently, and a writing/submissions update

by Robin Houghton on April 19, 2017
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I’m not spending a great deal of time at the computer at the moment – can only blame the marvellous good weather! I’m in admiration of those taking part in NaPoWriMo this month, such as Jayne…

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On staying motivated

by Robin Houghton on February 16, 2017
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It’s one of those tricky periods right now. The poetry honeymoon is well and truly over. I’m existing on a handful of acceptances (for which I am humbly grateful). I’m…

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TGI February

by Robin Houghton on February 6, 2017
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January is really my least favourite month – I think it’s the short days and dark evenings that are so depressing.  It doesn’t help that the it’s the month of…

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Poem a day writing exercise

by Robin Houghton on January 11, 2017
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This month I’m setting myself the ‘start a poem a day’ challenge. (Not ‘write’ a poem a day, as that presumes each one will be a finished first draft at…

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Marion Tracy spills the beans

by Robin Houghton on October 27, 2016
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On becoming a poet in Australia, putting images in the wrong order, and John Ashbery’s baskets: in conversation with Marion Tracy. When I asked poet friend Marion Tracy if she’d…

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