poem a day – Robin Houghton

TGI February

January is really my least favourite month – I think it’s the short days and dark evenings that are so depressing. It doesn’t […]

Blog/ 11/01/2017

This month I’m setting myself the ‘start a poem a day’ challenge. (Not ‘write’ a poem a day, as that presumes each one […]

What’s been your experience of writers’ residential courses? I’ve heard many good things from friends who’ve done an Arvon course or similar. The […]

It’s two weeks since my last ‘poem a day’ update, and I must confess I feel like I’ve run out of steam. The […]

I’m about halfway through my mission to write (or at least start) a poem a day. I wish I could say it’s been […]

Confession: my poem-a-day pledge has stuttered. I’ve actually been a bit ill, although there’s little evidence for it, and if I worked a […]

Dear Reader For a minute I thought I was struggling already, but the Guardian came to the rescue, or rather whoever it was […]

After a chat with a wonderful poet friend yesterday I had a bit of a lightbulb moment (albeit over a couple of […]