martin malone – Robin Houghton

Catchup for a rainy day – news, upcoming etc

With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and […]

Taking a leaf out of Peter Kenny’s book, here are seven items from the imaginary newsdesk at Kenny Houghton Towers (sorry Peter – but as […]

Blog/ 20/04/2018

Intro/bit of a rant etc (skip this if you’d rather go straight to The Poetry stuff) Where has the month gone? (Rhetorical question.) […]

Blog/ 22/10/2015

This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the […]

Blog/ 21/10/2015

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 […]

Blog/ 11/10/2015

Ah, National Poetry Day seems to be the unofficial kickstarter of the poetry season (is that ‘open season’)? Last week saw a flurry […]

Blog/ 17/03/2015

I always seem to be having a moan about submissions-constipation and other niggly stuff on here but I thought I ought to share […]

Blog/ 09/03/2015

After reading Jayne Stanton’s uplifting post about all the things she’s got to look forward to and how glad she is to see […]

I always think of January as being a bit dreary, so it tends to be the time of year I make plans for […]

I laughed out loud at Martin Malone’s editorial in The Interpreter’s House 57 on the subject of poetry competitions. “What is wrong with […]