handmade – Robin Houghton

30/06/2020

On a literary education (or lack of), dealing with the social media hate-storms, etc

By Robin Houghton30/06/2020Categories: Angst, Blog, Courses, Lockdown, Mags & Blogs, SubmissionsTags: creative writing MA, finished creatures, garden, handmade, poetry south east 2020, social media, the frogmore press, twitter9 Comments

Is it the end of June already? I wonder how you’re getting on. Well, I hope. If you need a shot of positivity, I find Wee Granny still helps… Reading matter Recently arrived in the post: two anthologies and issue #3 of Finished Creatures magazine. Finished Creatures was having not one but two online launches,Read more ⟶

15/11/201715/11/2017

Foot Wear – a handmade mini-pamphlet

By Robin Houghton15/11/201715/11/2017Categories: Blog, Books, Pamphlets, PublishingTags: book binding, foot wear, handmade, limited edition, pamphlet24 Comments

So there I was with a handful of poems from my ill-fated ‘Business Class’ collection that couldn’t find a home. What to do? I started thinking about the themes: workplace tensions, multicultural office environments, illicit relationships, anomie…and shoes! Why hadn’t I thought of it before? I was working in the sports shoe industry. And IRead more ⟶