A Night In with Brian Bilston
Join bestselling poet and beloved novelist Brian Bilston to celebrate the publication of his new poetry collection, Days Like These.
The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of Days Like These (RRP £16.99) deliverable to any UK or international address. The first 200 customers who purchase a Book and Stream ticket will receive a SIGNED copy of Days Like These.This event is FREE to watch.
The event is now available to watch on demand until 21st December 2022.
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Brian Bilston returns a brand-new way to celebrate and mark every single day of the year. Here are the poems that will take the blues out of Monday, flatten the Wednesday hump and amplify that Friday feeling from January through to December.
Days Like These contains a poem for every day of the year, each one inspired by an event associated with that day, and introduced with a paragraph from Brian – from the invention of television to World Bee Day; from Ada Lovelace Day to the founding of the NHS; from the death of Agatha Christie to the beheading of Charles I.
Variously funny, surprising, ingenious, serious, touching and daft, the poems’ subjects also include: quarks, Morse code, Wittgenstein, Blue Peter, bananas, unicorns, Barbie, the unification of Italy, the Rubik’s Cube, water, Scrabble, Waiting for Godot, the moon, Jane Austen, Esperanto, beer, Matt Hancock, Lego, kindness, Countdown, and Elvis. Each introduction is followed by a poem written in response. A wholly delightful, original way to mark each day of the year.
In conversation with Henry Normal, Brian will do a select reading from his newest book and discuss the inspiration behind the poems and why now felt like the best time to dedicate a collection to every day in the year. Don’t miss what promises to be a hilarious feel-good event for the end of the year!
You can purchase a copy of Brian's Book here