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?

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...

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

I'll be there! bring it on 👍

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

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...

🧪 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

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...

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...

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

It's been simmering for a while and launch is imminent.... my new handmade limited edition #poetry pamphlet Yo-Yo - details (and you can even pre-order!) here: py.pl/OXwyk

Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines. Subscribe to my list of over 200 (mostly) UK & Ireland publications: when they're open, what to send & more. All for free and updated quarterly. robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...

Just a reminder that @frazzledlit.bsky.social opens on the 1st of.October for general submissions. www.frazzledlit.com Some exciting news about our new poetry readers for this issue coming soon! 👀👀👀

I enjoyed this piece on 'progress' and 'success' in poetry on @thefridaypoem.bsky.social - always good to be reminded of this

I'm very grateful indeed for @matriches.bsky.social thoughtful and honest review of my book and thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk for commissioning & publishing it 👍❤️

It's a wrap for Season 5 . Your pals @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social repair to Beachy Head to celebrate. Happy Summer Holidays everyone! A humongous THANK YOU to all our stellar guests and wonderful listeners over the last five years. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

This was such a nice interview! @planetpoetry.bsky.social

I'm sorry but I hate screamers in tennis, so am relieved to see the back of Ms Sabalenka @wimbledonltc.bsky.social

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social I'm with a choir traveling to Norwich & will be singing in Blythburgh church tomorrow. I'm really enjoying your commentary on it, thank you. You have a fascinating website.

What a wonderfully thoughtful review of The Mayday Diaries by DA Prince on London Grip, huge thanks to her and to editor Mike Bartholomew-Biggs londongrip.co.uk/2025/06/lond...

I'm reading at In-Words in Greenwich next Tuesday with @peter-kenny.bsky.social and Sarah Barnsley, and we'll also be talking about Telltale Press - free entry, do come!

I wrote this for the Writers & Artists website which sadly isn't yet on Bluesky although is still on the other place (x.com/Writers_Arti...) www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/poetr...

It's that time again! If you have poetry or flash that you'd like to share with the world, send it my way for consideration. #poetry #poetrysubmissions

Delighted to have this endorsement from @betarish.bsky.social - many thanks Rishi 👍

Off with @peter-kenny.bsky.social to read at Arundel Arts Junction this evening - come on down! www.thevictoriainstitute.com/arts-junction/

Here's Erica McAlpine discussing her new book 'Small Pointed Things' from @carcanet.bsky.social in our latest episode...with @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Wow! Go The Boss!

Free submissions in June to Anthropocene! www.anthropocenepoetry.org/submissions

Thanks so much for this Dave, I especially enjoyed your pointing me to posts by ‪@kathleenjamie.bsky.social‬ and ‪@clareshawpoet.bsky.social‬

Its that time again... the June update goes out in a week or so. Poets: sign up now to get it (free). Poetry magazine editors: if you're not on the spreadsheet, let me know.

@pleides.bsky.social Hi Elly! Thanks for the repost... I hope all is well with you. x

About the cover art of The Mayday Diaries: robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/05/28/t...

Poets! The window opens... Jump in while you can.

Love this.

I'm delighted that Sharon Black at Pindrop Press nominated 'The Mayday Diaries' for the Forward Prize Best First Collection. Up against a zillion others of course, but one can live in hope! robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/the-mayday-d...

Poems that tremble with tension and beauty, cupping darkness and secret trauma. Richard Scott shares from his new collection 'That Broke into Shining Crystals, from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Hosted by @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

I'm very grateful to all my wellwishers for the book - and the fantastic @richchad.bsky.social even received his copy on publication day - wow! #poetry

Join us on the 13th May at the Frontier Bar in Eastbourne for an evening of poetry from our Guest Poet @robinhoughton.bsky.social and our fabulous array of open mic performers. Grab a drink from the bar and just enjoy the poetry - it's free! We look forward to seeing you there! #poetry #words