robert frost – Robin Houghton

23/08/2015

The Road Not Taken & FOMO

By Robin Houghton23/08/2015Categories: Angst, audio, Blog, Books, Inspiration, Poems, Social media, US poetry, VideoTags: Brain Pickings, don share, literary envy, maria popova, matthew hollis, online community, robert frost, the road not taken8 Comments

Just the other day Don Share posted on Twitter a link to a recording of Robert Frost reading ‘The Road Not Taken’. How wonderful to hear it in the poet’s voice. Here it is on YouTube: Matthew Hollis, in his 2011 biography of Edward Thomas, Now All Roads Lead to France, tells of Thomas’s distress atRead more ⟶

19/12/2013

A literary lunch, a rejection and a Robert Frost mystery

By Robin Houghton19/12/2013Categories: Angst, Books, Inspiration, Mags & Blogs, Submissions, US poetryTags: ambit, carol ann duffy, douglas dunn, liz dean, Poetry Review, Rattle magazine, rejections, robert frost, simon armitage, stopping by woods on a snowy eveningLeave a comment

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 I have to give up on it for now. The last rejection I had from them felt more personal and encouraging. I think three orRead more ⟶