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A birthday post and on magazines

by Robin Houghton on October 29, 2019

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Ooh. Lots of interesting discussion & comment around my last post. Thank you to everyone who engaged! (Feels a bit of a sham/shame to use that 21st century term but…

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A midsummer stock-take

by Robin Houghton on June 21, 2017

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It’s the longest day of the year here, and the hottest. I love these long days and warm evenings and we’ve been making the most of the garden and living…

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When the poetry magazines arrive…

by Robin Houghton on July 7, 2016

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… it’s always exciting, especially of course if you’ve got a poem in it. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been enjoying The Interpreter’s House issue 62, featuring an…

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Submissions, readings, blogging books

by Robin Houghton on November 12, 2014

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I’ve been busy with work stuff lately so just a quick update. I had another rejection from The Poetry Review (but a nice note from Maurice Riordan) and I’m still awaiting…

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A literary lunch, a rejection and a Robert Frost mystery

by Robin Houghton on December 19, 2013

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Emerging from the fug of the common cold, what should greet me but a ‘no thanks’ notification from Ambit. It seemed like an automated/standard reply this time, so I think…

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A reading, not much writing & feeling a bit humble

by Robin Houghton on December 2, 2013

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Last Thursday I had the pleasure of taking part in a reading at Tunbridge Wells library, organised by the wonderful Abegail Morley and featuring also Jo Hemmant, Emer Gillespie and Margaret…

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Submissions update

by Robin Houghton on November 16, 2013

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Good news and bad news! Quick update first of all to my October ‘working on, waiting on’ post: Poetry London – standard rejection slip. Shearsman – standard rejection email. The…

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Riordan & Share on ‘100 years of the don’ts’

by Robin Houghton on October 23, 2013

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Yesterday evening I was at Keats House in Hampstead listening to a Poetry Society debate on the subject of Ezra Pound’s enormously influential article ‘A Few Don’ts’, first published a hundred…

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Just a quick ‘yay’ and ‘nay’

by Robin Houghton on August 22, 2013

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How exciting to have a copy of The Frogmore Papers hand-delivered through my door the other day – handy that the publisher lives in the same town as me! (There’s…

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A bit of a rave about Sam Willetts

by Robin Houghton on August 4, 2013

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On the train to the Poetry Review launch the other week  I looked through the magazine to remind myself of the poems which I’d enjoyed on first reading, or that…

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