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. […]

… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had […]

I haven’t had a poem accepted for a while so it was very nice to hear from Jeremy Page at The Frogmore Papers […]

I turned up to yesterday’s Brighton Poetry Stanza meeting with pretty much a clean sheet regarding how we’d spend the time. Although it […]

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 […]

Last week I wasn’t able to get along to the first Pighog poetry night in Brighton as it was Nick’s birthday so we […]

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 […]

It was hot stuff last night in the basement of the Poetry Cafe. I was just about ready to pass out in the […]

Six of us from the Brighton Stanza are reading this evening alongside six Forest Poets (Waltham Forest) in a ‘Stanza Bonanza’. I don’t […]