Robin Houghton

Anika Carpenter (prose), Robin Houghton (poetry), and Maria Jastrzębska (prose) – Thursday 15 January Our next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 15th January 2026, featuring Anika Carpenter (prose), Robin Houghton (poetry), and Maria Jastrzębska (prose). This will be a LIVE event at the Joh…

I'm enjoying getting stuck into a new project for the new year. More about it later! But first of all a reading in Lewes at Needlewriters on Thursday, do come! needlewriters.co.uk/2025/12/02/a...

You're welcome!

Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...

HoHoHo 🧑‍🎄 we are BACK for our Christmas Special featuring Niall Campbell on his @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection 'The Island in the Sound', shoutouts to Kay Syrad, @matriches.bsky.social, George Seferis plus festive shenanigans planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Pondering over whether this is the year I finally stop sending Christmas cards. It seems expensive and wasteful, but I have so many friends and family that I have no contact with from year to year, except via Xmas cards, and I don't want to lose touch with them completely. Do you send xmas cards?

Poetry Magazines Submissions Spreadsheet Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines What poetry magazines are there? What are their web addresses? How many poems can I send? Are they open for submissions now? You&#821…

I'll be updating the poetry magazines spreadsheet this coming week, so if you're not on my mailing list, join now (it's free) and you'll never be short of places to send your poems... robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...

Reading #poetry tomorrow at New Park Chichester (Jubilee Hall) 7.30 - there's also an open mic... do come! www.facebook.com/groups/16972...

Thanks so much for the shouts and reposts ❤️👍@internetofwords.com @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @wordweave.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social

Thanks so much for your kind words, Catherine!

Planning to move house sometime in 2026 🤞...so am starting to downsize. Charity shops, Vinted, maybe a garage sale in the Spring...

Wow, 'Yo-Yo' has skittered off the shelf in less than a month. There's one copy left - number 50. Grab it now. Second edition is coming soon...
robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/11/09/y...

Thank you David!

Oh! This is nice - thank you so much @atriumpoetry.bsky.social for featuring my collection!

I'll be there! bring it on 👍

Brian Patten I too was very sorry to hear Brian Patten had died (I was reminded of this in reading Mat Riches blog post in which he talks about having sent Patten some poems as a youngster and got a kind letter…

Remembering Brian Patten robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/10/20/b... #poetry

Poetry & Purpose Literary Magazine Issue 1 - October 2025

New ezine over on Substack.
For poets and poetry lovers, this is an eclectic inaugural edition (and I’ve got two poems in it!) so head on over for a slice of free creativity!

Poetry & Purpose Literary Magazine open.substack.com/pub/kellylou...

#poetry

New blog post, new pamphlet! Yo-Yo...
robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/10/06/y...

Grand to see a pome from The Mayday Diaries on @inksweatandtears.co.uk for its National Poetry Day series this year inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...

submit — Consilience For each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with our inclusivity sta...

🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️

The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.

Submit your work for free here:

www.consilience-journal.com/submit

#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry

'not just pretty'? Is this supposed to be ironic? I wonder if a movement to champion male writers would ever be referenced #notjusthandsome

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Thanks for including my blog, Dave, and for the interesting and eclectic reads, as ever 👍

yes that's an idea isn't it? I agree maybe a quote or two from keen exponents eg Glyn Maxwell or Don Paterson (although the latter never replies to little me - ha)

Ah, it was Peter doing the interview? ha, in my memory it was me, how funny

er....😶!

Although I suppose it could get a little lengthy

Well I think the idea is that there should be some discernible form, ie just not completely free verse

Yes, good idea

Poets, if you were to launch a poetry competition for poems using form, how might you describe that to would-be entrants? So as to discourage 'light verse' I suppose is what I mean.

I really enjoyed 'Come Here to This Gate' by @rorywaterman.bsky.social Here's my interview with Rory on @planetpoetry.bsky.social : planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...