the poetry business – Robin Houghton

26/01/201626/01/2016

The Reading List, winding up

By Robin Houghton26/01/201626/01/2016Categories: Angst, Blog, Competitions, Inspiration, Pamphlets, Submissions, The Reading ListTags: deep lane, emily dickinson, Mark doty, mark ford, pamphlet submissions, rejections, telltale press, the poetry business, this dialogue of one10 Comments

First: general ‘how I’m feeling’ stuff, feel free to skip down if you’re short of time Apologies for the silence these last few days. The usual self-employed person’s dilemma of feeling like rubbish and simultaneously wanting to stay on top of work and not let people down. Yesterday I had to leave early from John McCullough’s poetry workshop atRead more ⟶

13/03/2013

Super excited

By Robin Houghton13/03/2013Categories: Competitions, Poems, Serendipity, WorkshoppingTags: emma danes, Pascale Petit, poetry competitions, prizes, rachael dunlop, the new writer, the poetry businessLeave a comment

… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had been through eight drafts over several months, and I’d workshopped it with two different groups. The content and form changed considerably as I yo-yo-ed back and forth. I’m quite keen to doRead more ⟶