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

If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will love Brian Bilston - Richard Osman, author of We Solve Murders ''There is poetry to be found in anything if you look hard enough.'' You Took the Last Bus Home is a collection of ingenious, hilarious and touching poems from Brian Bilston, one of Britain''s funniest and best-loved poets. With endless wit, wisdom and delightful wordplay, Bilston''s first collection of poetry offers profound insights into the common joys and sorrows of modern life. Exploring themes as diverse as love, death, and the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out, all of Bilston''s poems are alive to the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with poetic forms - from Venn diagrams to Scrabble tiles - this irresistibly charming collection of poems will make you ponder the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century. ''Bilston is a magician with words'' - The Guardian ''Brian Bilston is a laureate for our fractured times'' - Ian McMillan

About the author

Brian Bilston has been described as Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate. With over 250,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. He has published several collections of poetry, You Took the Last Bus Home, and Alexa, what is there to know about love?, and his novel Diary of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. He has also published a collection of football poetry, 50 Ways to Score a Goal, and his acclaimed poem Refugees has been made into an illustrated book for children.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Bilston, Bilston Brian
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781035086634
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3508663-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HUMOR / Form / Limericks & Verse, HUMOR / Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Poetry by individual poets, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, HUMOR / Form / Puns & Wordplay