Now UP: Our Season Six Finale featuring Will Harris plus poems from @fiddes.bsky.social, Tess Jolly and more planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis... with your hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social

Noticing | Noticing - with Will Harris - Planet Poetry

Cor what a scorcher! Time to bask in the company of Will Harris. You will delight in his fresh and distinct style, with cuttlefish-fast leaps of metaphor and imagery as we explore his two Granta volum...

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Small boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.

Thank you Ver Poets! It was a super event, really enjoyed it

Ver Poets@verpoets.bsky.social · last mo.

We were delighted to welcome Robin Houghton (@robinhoughton.bsky.social) and Mark Fiddes (@fiddes.bsky.social) to St Albans Library on Saturday morning. As well as giving excellent readings, they also led a very interesting discussion. Our thanks to them and to the open-mic readers.

Yup, @peter-kenny.bsky.social and I are back - listen to Mara Bergman read from her books 'The Disappearing Room' and 'The Night We Were Dylan Thomas' both from Arc Publications, plus all the usual shenanigans

Planet Poetry@planetpoetry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ooh look ... another NEW episode of the poddy: we chat with poet & children's author Mara Bergman, plus musing about JH Prynne, the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair and get all catched-up ... planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Thanks again @robinhoughton.bsky.social for including @atriumpoetry.bsky.social in this very useful book. Recommended reading for poets everywhere!

Atrium@atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks so much to @robinhoughton.bsky.social for including a few words of wisdom from us in the new edition of A Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published. We'd really recommend this guide, which contains loads of great help and advice. Copies available from robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk

Join us at the Free Verse gala reading (from 7pm) this Saturday 25th April after the main Fair (12noon-6.30pm)! Poets include (left to right): Christie Williamson, Rachael Li Ming Chong, Sim Pereira-Madder, Elhum Shakerifar and many more. Full line-up at the Free Verse Fair page - see link in bio

Yes, it's here! Updated and expanded for 2026, 'A Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published': step by step submitting to magazines, plus comps, pamphlets and a massive directory of poetry mags... PLUS a free 20 page PDF on how to hand-make a mini pamphlet. You know you want one. apoetsguide.co.uk

Brand new edition of @robinhoughton.bsky.social ‘s excellent guide to getting your poetry published, glad to have made a small contribution to it along with a host of insightful editors and poets. More details and ordering here apoetsguide.co.uk

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...

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…

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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...

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...

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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?

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...

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…

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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!

Catherine Redford@catherineredford.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What I’ve been reading over the past few days: Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’. @robinhoughton.bsky.social

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...

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

Atrium@atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Featured Publication – The Mayday Diaries by Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/02/f...

I'll be there! bring it on 👍

Mat Riches@matriches.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Less than 24 hours from now this will be over. It’s not too late to change your plans and come along. Unless your plans are to come along; in who case don’t change your plans.

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

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…

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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

Poetry & Purpose Literary Magazine

Issue 1 - October 2025

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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...

🧪 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

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...

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

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.uk · 10mo ago

#NotJustPretty — we don’t platform women to show them. We publish them to hear them. Poetry. Art. Defiance. Read it: thebrokenspine.co.uk... @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social

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...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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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...

Fathers | Frontiers - with Rory Waterman - Planet Poetry

Hear Rory Waterman  describe his experience of being stuck in quarantine in Korea, where (as well as doing press ups) he used his time to begin his fourth collection Come Here to This Gate, ...

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Rory Waterman@rorywaterman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

One of three ‘interludes’ in ‘All But Forgotten’, a sequence in my book Come Here to This Gate (@carcanet.bsky.social, 2024). I probably wouldn’t have written these 3 poems without Tony Harrison’s From the School of Eloquence. He gave us direct, moving poems, and I’ve wanted more of them ever since.

Last call for our free @nationalpoetryday event at the Fisherman's Club on Eastbourne's Seafront. Join us to Congratulate our competition winners, listen to @chriskeatsmusic , listen to some magic wordery, enjoy great company. Hope to see you there! #poetry #words #celebrate #community #creativity