You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of 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.
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You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of 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.
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You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

by Brian Bilston
You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

by Brian Bilston

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783524921
Publisher: Unbound
Publication date: 04/13/2021
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian Bilston is a poet clouded in the pipe smoke of mystery. While little is known of the man behind the pipe, he has built up a following of fans through the sharing of his verse on social media. He has been described by many in the UK as the “Poet Laureate of Twitter.” This is his first collection of poetry.

Table of Contents

Introduction xvii

You Took the Last Bus Home 1

The Ice Cream Vans 2

For We Shall Stare at Mobile Phones 4

A Surprise Ending 5

University Challenged 6

In Praise of the Comma 9

Night at the London Palindrome 10

Carpe DMs 11

Frisbee 12

Literal Thinking 13

Poem, Revised Draft 14

Ping to My Pong 15

Thirty Rules for Midlife Rebellion 16

The Explosion 18

Words 19

Read My Lips 20

I Before E (Except After Sea) 23

No Hands Macpherson 24

The Heebie Bee Gees 25

Curriculum Vitae 26

Scenes from a Railway Carriage 28

Twelve Haiku 29

Compilation Cassette 32

Acrostic Guitar 33

Bin Lorries 34

Mixed Up 35

Haiku for Doomed Youth 37

Friday the 13th 38

Duffle Coat 40

At the Intersection 41

The Pillow Man 42

The Power of a Homophone 44

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? 45

Night Vision 47

Bonfire 451 48

How Much 1 Dislike the Daily Mail 50

A Brok n Po m 51

Receptacles 52

How's Wally? 53

Sporkie 55

Roger's Thesaurus 56

Too Much to Bare 58

Choreplay 59

Orpheus in the Umbroworld 61

The Day That Twitter Went Down 63

Anthem for Unnamed Storms 64

Book Group 66

Coquet 68

Smoking Jacket 69

Bags 70

No, You Cannot Borrow My Mobile Phone Charger 71

Granny Smith 72

Jessica Fletcher Investigates 73

Love Excels 74

Busman's Holiday 75

Paradise Not Regained 76

Running Wild 77

My Unbearable Politeness of Being 78

Pusher 79

Clive of Suburbia 80

The Boogie Monster 81

Morrissey's Quiff 82

Thin Poem 83

Subbuteo 84

The Offertory 85

The Problem of Writing a Poem in tire Shape of a Heart 86

Envy Not the Rich Man for I, Though Poor … 87

Light Verse 88

Internet Shopping 89

Cuppa 90

New Year Office Chitchat 92

Frenemies 94

Love Poem, Written in Haste 95

A Chemical Romance 96

Lollipop Ladies 98

Divided by a Common Language 100

The Interview 101

Black Friday 103

Hear, They're and Every wear 105

A Forest, Which Grew 106

Ballad of the Ballot Paper 107

The Occidental Tourist 108

The Waiting Room 109

Eggbasket 110

Unforeseen Consequences 111

You Can't Judge a Book 112

Love is a Skin 113

Toby 114

Upon Delivering a Lecture on the Work of One Direction 114

Fall 116

The Perils of Reading 117

Prometheus Uncreased 118

Parties 119

We Are Books 120

Lines Written upon Arriving at a Holiday Cottage and Discovering the Lack of Reliable Wi-Fi 121

The Grammar Police 122

Upon Awakening to the Sounds of Distant Rumbles 123

Ode to a Weather Girl 124

Morrissey's Fridge 125

In the Departure Lounge 126

This Is One of Those Poems without Any Rhymes 127

You Are a Map 128

Haiku #478629 129

Australia 130

Your Search Returned No Results 131

Reach out to Me 132

Please Sing to Me Your Songs of Sweet, Sweet Love 133

Kiss 134

Life: A Record 135

Selfie Stick 136

A Little Light Verse 137

Untitled 138

Plane Verse 139

Anthem for Doomed Ruth 140

Haiku Horoscopes 141

Whither Spoons? 144

The Importance of the Oxford Comma 145

Lapse 146

The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre 147

Languish School 149

Haiku #64471 150

Invincible Vince 151

Every Song on the Radio Reminds Me of You 152

Clarkson Apologist 154

Melancholy Communion 155

Not Her Cup of Tea 156

Penned Up Emotion 157

'Life Is an inspirational Quote' 158

The Pedents' Revolt 160

Lamina: A Palindromic Poem 161

If Your Heart Was an Org Chart 162

The Great Famine 164

Clowns 165

Beards 166

Name Calling 167

Logomachy 168

Fluff 169

Desemicolonisation 170

Suspicion 171

Origami 172

Missing the Moon 173

Her Universe 174

Malcolm 175

Wallycobbles 176

4' 37" 178

Needles 179

Little Poems 180

The Unbearable Lightness of Boing 182

Things I Would (and Wouldn't) Do for Love 183

Haiku # I 184

Ode to a USB Stick 185

Paul Young 186

You Stitched Together the Pauses 188

The Poet Laurie Ate 189

The Correct Attire for Yoga 190

Jewel 191

The Crocs of the Matter 194

Tony 195

Love Amongst the Dominoes 196

A Night on the Tiles 198

Haiku #298610 202

Poetry Books Offer 203

Lady Philately's Lover 204

Police Notice: Schrödinger's Cat 205

Stack 206

Robert Frost's Netflix Choice 207

Refugees 208

No Laughing Matter 209

Fifty-One Words for Rain 210

Without You 212

Poundland Economics 213

Two Paths Diverged 214

You Bagged All tire Seats 216

Over My Dead Body 218

4 × 4 219

Why I Have Never Read War and Peace: Ten Excuses 220

Pretty Things 222

The Love Song of Brian H. Bilston 224

Ceci N'est Pas un Poème 226

Acknowledgements 228

Supporters 229

A Note about the Typefaces 237

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