Tears in the Fence – Robin Houghton

29/10/201928/10/2019

A birthday post and on magazines

By Robin Houghton29/10/201928/10/2019Categories: Blog, Mags & BlogsTags: Abigail Morley, Agenda, Claire booker, frogmore papers, obsessed with pipework, poetry magazine, poetry magazines, Poetry Review, poetry shed, poetry wall, prole, Rattle, Tears in the Fence, the rialto17 Comments

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 you know what I mean: commented, shared, liked/disliked etc). Meanwhile, on another blog (when I update it that is) I’m telling the story of ourRead more ⟶

15/06/2016

Tears in the Fence: a no-tears rejection

By Robin Houghton15/06/2016Categories: Blog, Mags & Blogs, Poems, Rejections, SubmissionsTags: Cherry Smyth, David Caddy, poetry submissions, Tears in the Fence6 Comments

A few months ago I sent some poems to David Caddy at Tears in the Fence. Although he didn’t take any of them for the magazine, his reply was prompt and very civilised, so much so that it didn’t feel like a standard rejection. Polite, interested, business-like, a suggestion that I send again, not a hint of condescension.Read more ⟶