Robin Houghton

What we know by heart

Today’s the biggest day of the year here in Lewes – Bonfire. Not much I can say about it that will do it […]

Yesterday evening I was at Keats House in Hampstead listening to a Poetry Society debate on the subject of Ezra Pound’s enormously influential […]

Here’s the longer post I promised about my week at Ty Newydd. First of all, some of the advice and sayings I captured […]

I was just reading this post on Rebecca Gethin’s blog and from there followed a link to Hannah Silva’s blog, which led me […]

Back from Ty Newydd yesterday with a head full of I don’t know what. It wasn’t that I was sad to leave, far […]

We’re halfway through the Ty Newydd poetry ‘masterclass’ with Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, I’m writing this at 5am because my mind […]

Since my last post I had a very welcome email from Jan Fortune at Envoi to say she would take for the next […]

I’m sat here with a number of scribbled-on poems around me, trying to decide which one(s) to resume work on and which to […]

It was a arts-studenty sort of scene last night at the Faber Social in London: a narrow basement room, concrete floor, a sweaty […]

I was inspired by Mark Hewitt’s performance of ‘expiry tbc‘ the other evening here in Lewes. It was actually a 3-person production featuring […]