Brian Bilston

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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 two collections of poetry, You Took the Last Bus Home (Unbound, 2016) and Alexa, what is there to know about love? (Picador, 2021), and his novel Diary of a Somebody (Picador, 2019) was shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. He has also published a collection of football poetry, 50 Ways to Score a Goal (Macmillan, 2021), and his acclaimed poem "Refugees" (Palazzo, 2019) has been made into an illustrated book for children. Source

The Last Bee

After the last ee

had uzzed its last uzz,

 

the irds and the utterflies

did what they could.

 

ut soon the fields lay are,

few flowers were left,

 

nature was roken,

and the planet ereft.

 

Published:

2019

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2024

Themes:

Humor & Satire

Science & Climate

Literary Devices:

End Rhyme

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same