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A birthday post and on magazines

by Robin Houghton on October 29, 2019

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Ooh. Lots of interesting discussion & comment around my last post. Thank you to everyone who engaged! (Feels a bit of a sham/shame to use that 21st century term but…

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Time for some good news!

by Robin Houghton on March 17, 2015

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I always seem to be having a moan about submissions-constipation and other niggly stuff on here but I thought I ought to share some of the Big Positives for a…

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A reading, not much writing & feeling a bit humble

by Robin Houghton on December 2, 2013

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Last Thursday I had the pleasure of taking part in a reading at Tunbridge Wells library, organised by the wonderful Abegail Morley and featuring also Jo Hemmant, Emer Gillespie and Margaret…

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Just a quick ‘yay’ and ‘nay’

by Robin Houghton on August 22, 2013

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How exciting to have a copy of The Frogmore Papers hand-delivered through my door the other day – handy that the publisher lives in the same town as me! (There’s…

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Frogmore Press 30th birthday readings

by Robin Houghton on May 6, 2013

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It was an intimate affair: in the round at the New Venture Theatre in Brighton yesterday evening, the first Sunday of the Brighton Festival and an unusually sunny (if not…

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Launches, celebrations, lovely poets

by Robin Houghton on May 3, 2013

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Three days into May and I think it’s been sunny all week – that’s about 5 or 6 days on the trot, something we haven’t had in over a year,…

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Judith Cair’s ‘The Ship’s Eye’ and other new reading matter

by Robin Houghton on March 30, 2013

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Judith Cair launched her debut pamphlet ‘The Ship’s Eye’ on Thursday evening in Brighton and the event was a sell-out, or rather a sell-over, as about a dozen people had…

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An acceptance, a talk and workshop news

by Robin Houghton on March 10, 2013

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I haven’t had a poem accepted for a while so it was very nice to hear from Jeremy Page at The Frogmore Papers to say he’d like to take one…

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