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Bare Fiction, Marion Tracy’s new book & other news

by Robin Houghton on May 16, 2016

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It’s gone a bit quiet here as I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of things – our new flat is taking shape, so I’ve been spending time choosing paint colours,…

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The Reading List, Week 8 – McCabe, Hopkins, Skinner, Sawkins

by Robin Houghton on October 9, 2015

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All the National Poetry Day euphoria over with and I’m back into the swing of The Reading List this week, and some wonderful reading to report on. Included here are…

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An update on submissions, readings etc and a nail-biting aside

by Robin Houghton on June 2, 2015

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My fingernails are looking reasonable at the moment, which is pretty good considering that the house-moving stressometer is probably at its highest right now. A short aside about nailbiting –…

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News of readings, launches

by Robin Houghton on May 13, 2015

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Pamphlet launch This evening Telltale Press goes global! Well, it makes its debut in the southwest of England, anyway… Siegfried Baber launches his debut pamphlet, When Love Came To the…

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Reading from memory – the sequel

by Robin Houghton on April 23, 2015

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Well I did it. Yesterday evening at Lauderdale House in Highgate I recited two of my poems from memory. It was actually the perfect set-up – no microphone (which I…

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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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Nikesh Shukla at the Vanguard Readings

by Robin Houghton on February 20, 2015

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Great night yesterday at The Bear in Camberwell for Richard Skinner’s Vanguard Readings. It’s an excellent series, basically offering a showcase to writers at all stages of their writing journey.…

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Vanguard Readings – Six Poets & Anthology Launch

by Robin Houghton on November 21, 2014

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Richard Skinner’s excellent Vanguard Readings at The Bear in Camberwell generally hosts both poets and prose writers, but last night was a poetry special. Somehow I managed to arrived only…

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Exit, pursued by a Bear

by Robin Houghton on June 18, 2014

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Um, no, I’m not referring to my previous post which generated a large amount of correspondence – although none of it in the comments, funnily enough! – mostly sympathetic. No…

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Launch of The Interpreter’s House 56

by Robin Houghton on June 13, 2014

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In the interests of giving the magazine an airing in different parts of the country, The Interpreter’s House editor Martin Malone came down to the south coast yesterday to launch…

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