Ceci n'est pas un poème. New book: Days Like These (Picador). Represented by Jo Unwin.
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Last Notes npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘Anniversary’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘On Tender Hooks’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘Late Twentieth-Century Techno-Funk Wake-Up Call’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘How Hard It Is to Be the Moon’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is about trying to get around the UK by train. It’s called ‘The Poet Now Standing at Platform 3A’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘Logomachy’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Advance warning: from tomorrow, I'm going to start sharing a poem each day again; so, if you were ever thinking about closing down your social media accounts, now might be a good time. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Dead chuffed to have taken delivery today of advance copies of ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’, which comes out next month. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s one of my more reflective poems, written while waiting for a train at a provincial railway station. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Pulp poetry. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I, for one, do not want to have another argument like that again. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston To mark Valentine’s Day, here is what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston H r ‘ a o m all d ‘O t of hara t r’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Message to the 14-Year-Old Me’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘My Unbearable Politeness of Being’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This, please. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’ve just taken delivery of this rather smashing proof copy of my next book: How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Poem with a subliminal message. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This year was also the year in which I failed to write a new end-of-the-year poem. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Hope you have a wonderful Christmas, no matter how you choose to spend it. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Christmas without you is’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This is called ‘A Short Poem Concerning the Proximity of Chris Rea to Home as He Drives Back for Christmas’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m reading some Christmas poems tonight on The Adverb on BBC Radio 4. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston These are a few of my favourite words … npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem which has become trapped in a vicious circus (and other phrases of a similar elk). npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems … npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s World Philosophy Day today so here’s a poem in celebration of that. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m back on the road with The Catenary Wires this Wednesday so I thought I’d write a short poem in celebration of each place we’ll be heading to this week: Worcester, Nottingham, Swansea and Bristol. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Given that it’s Halloween, here are some haiku horrorscopes. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s Halloween poem is called ‘Come, take this hand in yours’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s Halloween-based poem is called ‘Pumpkin’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston With Halloween approaching, I thought I’d share a few spine-chilling poems. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Happy World Pasta Day to all those who celebrate. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Some news! I have a new book coming in April: ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m reading some poems at Marlborough Literature Festival tomorrow. A few tickets remain - if you fancy snaffling one, they’re available here: npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s UK publication day for ‘A Poem for Every Question’, my new collection of poems for children, illustrated by the brilliant Joe Berger. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This poem is dedicated to all those who see fit to correct my grammar and spelling on here. It’s called ‘Pedents’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a short poem called ‘On Falling for a Meteorologist’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston September is here and I’m out and about again in various guises … npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s publication day for the new edition of my first poetry collection, ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I left today’s poem on the train so this will have to do instead. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Roger’s Thesaurus’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston To celebrate the publication of a new edition of ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ later this week, I’m going to share a poem each day from it. This one is called ‘Jessica Fletcher Investigates’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston **BORING PROMOTIONAL POST** npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston There now follows a short public information film containing particulars of Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires' autumn tour. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Neither Rhyme nor Reason’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Tickets are on sale now for our autumn tour. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I took delivery yesterday of some advance copies of the gorgeous new edition of ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a new poem called ‘Wild Weekend’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’ve got a new book coming out in September: A Poem for Every Question. It’s a collection of poems for children, illustrated by the brilliant Joe Berger. It looks beautiful and here’s a video to prove it. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston A short passive-aggressive poem, written on an aeroplane. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston IN THE PARK npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m delighted to be reading some poems at Marlborough LitFest in Wiltshire on 27th September. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Sounds Made by Humans - an album of my poetry put to music by the fabulous Catenary Wires – is now up on Spotify and other streaming platforms. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston And now for today’s climate forecast … npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I'm delighted to be reading some poems at this year's Bewdley Festival in Worcestershire - St George's Hall, Saturday 11th October. Tickets have just gone on sale. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m coming back to Ireland this October to read some poems in what is set to be my most extensive tour there yet*: npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston A big thanks to everyone who came along to the Glastonbury’s Poetry & Words tent to hear me read a few poems. That was a lot of hot, sticky fun. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m off to read some poems at Glastonbury this weekend. I’ll be on the Poetry & Words stage on Saturday, just before 5pm. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Huge congratulations to Colette Hiller for winning this year’s CLiPPA, the CLPE Children’s Poetry Prize with her brilliant book, ‘Colossal Words for Kids’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s Independent Bookshop Week. Here’s a poem about one of the many reasons why indie bookshops are so brilliant. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s another poem from ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’, and one of my more enigmatic offerings: it’s called ‘Frisbee’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Sorry about that. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Bags’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston A few people have been asking about my first poetry collection, You Took the Last Bus Home. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s release day for ‘Sounds Made by Humans’, an album of ‘poem songs’ made with the brilliant Catenary Wires. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston One week today, I’ll be heading off on tour with the brilliant Henry Normal, armed with a bunch of new poems, plus some old ones, too. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’m thrilled to announce that my book ‘Let Sleeping Cats Lie’, has been shortlisted for the CLiPPA, the UK’s leading award for published poetry for children. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem about the time I went online to buy an Easter egg and spent an absolute fortune. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s International Haiku Poetry Day apparently, so here are a few haiku with which to start the day. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston It’s National Pet Day today apparently so here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘For Your Own Safety and Protection’. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston In less than a month, I’ll be heading off on tour again with the brilliant Henry Normal, armed with a bunch of new poems and some old ones, too. npub1wqtl7dftknty5ljw2mq403fy2aseefusq7wp8sl7klmwcusfxaysq2w8kc Brian Bilston Here’s a poem called ‘Prayer for Uninteresting Times’.
