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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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Home again, and deadlines approaching

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2018

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The Swindon Poetry Festival over, I’m now catching up with stuff, looking at my book purchases (actually there are a couple of books I still need to buy, not being…

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Poems coming out, new anthology, currently reading etc

by Robin Houghton on April 20, 2018

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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.) Why am I being besieged by companies/organisations…

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TS Eliot readings, Needlewriters, some crazy January stuff

by Robin Houghton on January 20, 2018

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Hardly seems like a week ago that Peter Kenny and I dared travel to London’s Southbank for the annual T S Eliot Prize readings. Eschewing the very unreliable train service,…

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Roundup | a good poetry week

by Robin Houghton on October 16, 2017

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Bit of a roundup post. Last Tuesday evening at West Greenwich Library I got to hear some super poems inspired by the Mary Evans Picture Library, by Sarah Westcott (who…

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Currently reading/listening to | upcoming events

by Robin Houghton on October 5, 2017

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As usual I’m a bit late to the party on a few things, namely Ocean Vuong, whose Forward-winning collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cape) I haven’t yet read, but…

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A (tell) Tale of Two Collectives

by Robin Houghton on April 10, 2016

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I’m fortunate to be a part of two writers’ collectives, one is of course Telltale Press and the other The Needlewriters. Needlewriters is based in Lewes and consists of about…

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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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Finding new homes

by Robin Houghton on April 10, 2015

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I’m currently in the middle of what the meedja likes to tell us is one of life’s most stressful times – moving house. I’ve managed to weather the others (divorce,…

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A clutch of Spring readings

by Robin Houghton on March 9, 2015

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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 the back of February, I couldn’t help…

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