It’s December so I suppose I should mention these books in case you might want to incorporate any of them into your Christmas shopping.
‘50 Ways to Score a Goal’ is a collection of poems, perfect for the football obsessive in your life, whether they’re aged eight or eighty (but not thirty-four for some reason).
‘Alexa, what is there to know about love?’ published earlier this year in a splendid-looking hardcover edition. It’s a collection of poems about love (plus a few other things like Brexit and pasta), making it the ideal gift for Sagittarians, vegetarians and Presbyterians.
‘Diary of a Somebody’ is a novel, in the form of a diary, about a complete loser called Brian Bilston (no relation). It also contains over 100 poems and for shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Goes well with a tomato and basil sauce.
‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ is, at heart, a book with some words in it. Many of these have been arranged into poems along with punctuation marks and the occasional line break. Appropriate for mums, uncles, nephews and sister-in-laws.
And ‘Refugees’ is my forwardy-backwardy poem in picture book format for children. The poem is accompanied by the beautiful artwork of José Sanabria.
They’re available from a bookshop near you. Unless you’re in North America, where generally you can only get hold of You Took the Last Bus Home and Refugees.
Also, you can find all the titles here, alongside some of my favourite books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/brianbilston
I hope to bring news quite soon of a new book on the way but more on that anon (and on and on).
Brian Bilston 
Love the poetry but the image & message appearing in the middle of the page is quite offensive :[ (what appears to be an invitation to ogle the woman’s breasts: ‘look closer’ etc.). Realise that ads pay for the page but wonder if can they be filtered … June
On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 08:42, Brian Bilston’s Poetry Laboetry wrote:
> brianbilston posted: ” Some books It’s December so I suppose I should > mention these books in case you might want to incorporate any of them into > your Christmas shopping. ‘50 Ways to Score a Goal’ is a collection of > poems, perfect for the football obsessive in your life, ” >
Thanks, June. I’ll take a look at that. I’ve been unhappy for a while about ads appearing on this page that I have no control over. It’s one of the reasons I use this blog less than I would sometimes like to. Looks like I should take the plunge and pay the extra money go for the ads-free experience.