Poetry Swindon Festival – Robin Houghton

09/10/201809/10/2018

Home again, and deadlines approaching

By Robin Houghton09/10/201809/10/2018Categories: Blog, Competitions, Events, PlacesTags: NAtional Poetry Compeition, needlewriters, Poetry Swindon Festival, troubadour prize2 Comments

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 able to do so because I ran out of cash. Note to self: always take a thick wodge of CASH to poetry events as thatRead more ⟶

26/08/201812/09/2018

Catchup for a rainy day – news, upcoming etc

By Robin Houghton26/08/201812/09/2018Categories: Blog, Blogging, Events, Mags & Blogs, Readings, Rejections, Submissions, WritingTags: ann perrin, blogger-in-residence, Claire booker, dean atta, Free Verse Poetry Book Fair, frogmore press, georgi gill, Hastings litfest, hastings stanza, Judith shaw, martin malone, New Writing South, Poetry Swindon Festival, Sophie brown, the interpreter's house, the north, the writers place, troubadour2 Comments

With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and that feeling of moving on to the start of a new year. (Still haunted by school terms, decades on…) Excellent Events Back in July, I didn’t manage to make it to TheRead more ⟶