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Robin Houghton

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Courses/ 12/05/2013

Social media for writers, ‘Orgasm Management’ etc

Iona Jette

This is not the blog post I started writing this morning – but that turned into a cod philosophical/ psychological discourse that I […]

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Books/ 06/05/2013

Frogmore Press 30th birthday readings

It was an intimate affair: in the round at the New Venture Theatre in Brighton yesterday evening, the first Sunday of the Brighton […]

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Inspiration/ 03/05/2013

Launches, celebrations, lovely poets

spring tree

Three days into May and I think it’s been sunny all week – that’s about 5 or 6 days on the trot, something […]

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Form/ 29/04/2013

Mimi Khalvati on form, and a few ‘banned’ words

Notes from a poetry workshop

Saturday was our penultimate workshop with Mimi Khalvati before the summer-autumn break. (By the way I realise the title of this post could […]

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Poems/ 26/04/2013

Two poems by Rebecca Varley-Winter

Ah, nature. We’re very lucky in Lewes to be nestled into the South Downs, with beautiful views of rolling hills round every corner. […]

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Form/ 21/04/2013

George Szirtes workshop in Swindon

The sun was shining, it was a great day for a drive and even the M25 was a breeze. So my trip yesterday […]

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Courses/ 19/04/2013

Ty Newydd excitement & friends’ news

Ty Newydd photo by Touchstone

What’s been your experience of writers’ residential courses? I’ve heard many good things from friends who’ve done an Arvon course or similar. The […]

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Angst/ 15/04/2013

Submissions: this week’s yays and nays

Poetry Wales rejection and Obsessed with Pipework

Oh OK I might as well admit it – there are no new YAYs to report. But issue 62 of ‘Obsessed with Pipework’ […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 13/04/2013

Exploring new territory, one poet at a time

Best American Poetry 2012

I’m a big fan of Dan Blank, founder of We Grow Media. Dan’s mission is to help writers build their online platform, not […]

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Uncategorized/ 11/04/2013

It’s been a while

I haven’t posted for over a week, mainly because we went away on holiday, although we came home early as my mother sadly […]

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