You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston

Brian Bilston’s first anthology of poetry contains more than 200 poems, and despite some of them being only four lines long, each one is quite refined and polished. Bilston plays with words like they were Legos – he stacks them up, sticks them together in weird shapes, dismantles them and spreads them out, or creates something totally new from them. And reading poems like these is like diving into a bag of liquorice allsorts – you get what you don’t expect but it sure is enjoyable. (Keep reading…)

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