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Summer holiday – some beautiful places we’ve been

by Robin Houghton on August 13, 2012

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The video of the bees going about their buzzi-ness, the manor house and the waterlilies were taken at Great Chalfield in Wiltshire, an absolutely idyllic National Trust property (hard to…

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Books Serendipity

Now all roads lead to France

by Robin Houghton on August 2, 2012

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My book group friends aren’t really into poetry. At all. But someone suggested we read Matthew Hollis’s biography of the last years of Edward Thomas, ‘Now all roads lead to…

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Angst Submissions Writing

Writing again after a setback

by Robin Houghton on July 21, 2012

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A few weeks ago I was feeling a bit ‘stuck’ and decided to pay for another ‘Poetry Prescription’ from the Poetry Society. I got the feedback last week and it…

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Mags & Blogs Readings

Ambit at the Betsey Trotwood

by Robin Houghton on July 11, 2012

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Took Lucy along to an Ambit poetry night yesterday at the Betsey Trotwood pub, a little island of old London tahn amidst the chaos and cacophony of Farringdon Road and…

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Don Paterson interviewed by Maitreyabandhu

by Robin Houghton on July 5, 2012

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Don Paterson from Poetry East on Vimeo.

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Poems from the Old Hill

by Robin Houghton on July 4, 2012

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Jeremy Page at the Frogmore Press is producing an anthology of work by poets who live in Lewes called ‘Poems from the Old Hill’ (althought rumour has it that at…

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Mags & Blogs Poems

At the Plastic Bag Museum

by Robin Houghton on July 3, 2012

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these are the things that carried the stuff that people bought see those loops for hands – handles they’re called naturally they never carried boxes the corners would poke through…

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Bumper latest news

by Robin Houghton on July 2, 2012

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Lots been happening lately. Firstly, my good friend and very talented poet Charlotte Gann was shortlisted for the Michael Marks pamphlet award. Although she was pipped at the post it…

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Mags & Blogs Submissions

Hurrah! The Rialto takes another

by Robin Houghton on June 12, 2012

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So excited to have had a poem accepted for The Rialto. The first poem I had published was in this magazine (Rialto 70, Autumn 2010) and to say that I was…

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Charleston Festival

by Robin Houghton on June 11, 2012

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It’s an annual ritual shared with an old schoolfriend. Charleston (Literary) Festival, at the end of May, takes place in the farmhouse once lived in by the ‘Bloomsberries’ – Vanessa…

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