Robin Houghton

Robin Houghton is the author of four poetry pamphlets including Why? And Other Questions (Live Canon, 2020) which was a winner of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2019. Her work has been published in many magazines including Mslexia, The Rialto and Poetry News, and is widely anthologised. She was awarded the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society in 2013.

With Peter Kenny she founded the poets’ publishing collective Telltale Press in 2014, and their current project is the podcast Planet Poetry, begun during the 2020 pandemic.

Born in London, Robin has lived and worked in Italy, Germany and the USA. After a marketing career with Nike and then Adidas, she obtained a masters degree in Digital Media in 2000 and ran her own online marketing business for over twenty years. She is now settled on the South coast of England.
The Mayday Diaries is her first full poetry collection.