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Readings this coming week, Planet Poetry & Uni stuff

by Robin Houghton on January 8, 2021

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Today feels like a desk-work day even though the sun is shining outside – we did go for a long walk on the Downs yesterday and I always need a…

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Rejections, invitations, forthcoming events & what I’m reading

by Robin Houghton on February 10, 2020

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Despite feeling quite positive about what I’m writing at the moment, I’ve started the year with rejections from two magazines. As usual, when I checked what it was I sent…

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Catchup for a rainy day – news, upcoming etc

by Robin Houghton on August 26, 2018

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With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and that feeling of moving on to the…

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The Reading List, week 11 – Clare Best’s ‘Cell’

by Robin Houghton on December 13, 2015

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It seems my blog posts of ‘micro reviews’ have set some sort of trend – who’d have thought?  Anyway, I haven’t posted one for a couple of weeks as other aspects…

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Readings, launches & seeds of a new project or two

by Robin Houghton on October 21, 2015

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We’ve been in Eastbourne a month. It probably sounds daft but I’ve been struck at how mild it seems to be here compared to Lewes or Brighton. The latter in…

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Lewes & Oxford readings this week, plus poet friends’ success

by Robin Houghton on October 11, 2015

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Ah, National Poetry Day seems to be the unofficial kickstarter of the poetry season (is that ‘open season’)? Last week saw a flurry of competition results and exciting announcements: Facebook…

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Poetry Book Fair excitement, plus my poetry gets a leg up

by Robin Houghton on September 4, 2015

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September so often seems like the shortest month – why is that? At the moment it’s also looking like the craziest this year. We have to move out of our…

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Catherine Smith’s The New Cockaigne

by Robin Houghton on November 19, 2014

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Last week I managed to grab the last available chair upstairs at The Lewes Arms for the first performance of Catherine Smith’s The New Cockaigne. Luckily I didn’t sit in…

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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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Readings, launches, and the Carmen Rollers

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2012

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  Lots of excitement in the past week. First of all, National Poetry Day and the launch of the Frogmore Press anthology Poems from the Old Hill on Thursday evening.…

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