'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.
| ISBN: | 9781035086634 |
| Publication date: | 21st August 2025 |
| Author: | Brian Bilston |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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'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.
You Took the Last Bus Home features in the following genres: Poetry, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets, Humour collections and anthologies
Paperback, Hardback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
You Took the Last Bus Home was written by Brian Bilston and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
You Took the Last Bus Home has 256 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
