You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston

You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston

You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the UK's mysterious Poet Laureate of Twitter. With endless wit, imaginative wordplay, and underlying heartache, he offers profound insights into modern life. There is love and death, the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger, the unbearable torment of forgetting to take the rubbish out, and the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with literary form, Bilston's words have been known to float off the page, take the shape of the subjects they explore, and reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Venn diagrams, and Scrabble tiles. This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you laugh out loud while making you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century.

• 'Bilston is no stranger to crafting cleverly composed poetry' Huffington Post
• 'Part John Cooper Clarke, part Frank SidebottomBrian’s minimalist homages… are all brilliant' Esquire
• 'Brian Bilston is bringing poetry to the masses… with his topical, witty, thoughtful and accessible poems' Irish Times
• 'Brian Bilston is a laureate for our fractured times, a wordsmith who cares deeply about the impact his language makes as it dances before our eyes' Ian McMillan
• 'If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will love Brian Bilston' Richard Osman

Brian Bilston is clouded in the pipe smoke of mystery.
The author of Diary of a Somebody, he has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate. With over 50,000 followers, numbering J. K. Rowling, Roger McGough and Frank Cottrell Boyce amongst many, many other luminaries, Brian has become truly beloved by the Twitter community. His first collection, You Took the Last Bus Home, was published by Unbound.
He won the Great British Write Off competition in 2015 - and was the Poet in Residence for the World Economic Forum in 2016. There have been features on him on BBC Radio 4's Today program, the BBC news website, the Irish Times, the Independent and the Smithsonian Magazine. Most of these features seem to have largely centrred around his pipe.

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ISBN 13	9781783524921
ISBN 10	1783524928
Title	You Took the Last Bus Home
Author	Brian Bilston
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Unbound
Year published	2017-11-16
Number of pages	256
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