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Robin Houghton

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Angst/ 30/09/2012

So this is what happens when I sit down to write

US strip mall

A free evening, and it’s a couple of hours until Downton Abbey (I’ll start watching it at 9, pause it at 9.01 so […]

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Readings/ 28/09/2012

Pighog night in aid of breast cancer charity

Charlotte Gann at the Redroaster

A very good evening yesterday at the Redroaster in Brighton: always lovely to hear Charlotte Gann reading, including some of the goodies familiar […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 25/09/2012

Bad Robot Poetry

Yesterday was the launch of a new ezine, Bad Robot Poetry. Not sure where I read about it but I just think the […]

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Poet's Tips/ 24/09/2012

Workshop with Mimi Khalvati

Aren’t we lucky in Lewes? A bona fide A-list poet comes down here from London each month to offer her wisdom and help […]

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Angst/ 21/09/2012

Please do not put me on after 9.30pm

The autumn poetry scene has swung into action. On Wednesday evening Clare Best hosted an evening of readings at the Needlemakers – something […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 19/09/2012

Rejected but not cowed

Oh well … I kind of suspected that the stuff I sent to Poetry London wasn’t going to blow Colette Brice’s socks off. […]

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Readings/ 17/09/2012

Brighton Pecha Kucha Night

Robin Houghton presenting at Pecha Kucha Night Brighton

Last Friday I was one of the presenters at Pecha Kucha Night at the Lighthouse in Brighton. If you’re not familiar with what it’s […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 12/09/2012

Close encounter

Close encounter on the Tube

So there I was yesterday lunchtime getting on a tube at Oxford Circus on my way to Victoria and home, when I overhear […]

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Books/ 02/09/2012

Smith, McCullough, Curtis, Lasky at the Red Roaster

The Glass Delusion by Abi Curtis

Lovely evening last week at the Red Roaster in Brighton, for the launch of Abi Curtis’s new collection The GlassDelusion. Not too crowded, […]

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Books/ 23/08/2012

Upcoming poetry events in Lewes, Brighton & Seaford…

Very pleased to be invited by Tom Roper to be one of the poets reading at Seaford Live this year on September 12th. […]

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