Brian Bilston on X: 10th December: a poem about bin day disruption caused by the revised Christmas collection schedule. #SantanicVerses / X

Brian Bilston on X: 4th December: A Tense Christmas - a poem featuring three night-time ghostly visitations. #SantanicVerses / X

Brian Bilston on X: 23rd December: a poem concerning the inadvisability of playing board games with your family at Christmas. #SantanicVerses / X

Brian Bilston on X: 2nd December #odevent calendar: today's poem is about Secret Santa shopping and unlikely charity shop finds. / X

Brian Bilston on X: 4th December: Advent Calendar poem. This Christmas spare a thought for those less fortunate. / X

Brian Bilston: books, biography, latest update

Brian Bilston - 9th December: BRIAN BILSTON'S POETRY ADVENT CALENDAR Today's Christmas poem is an old Icelandic lullaby called Papa Crimblecheeks, an early-day Father Christmas figure.

Brian Bilston on X: Here's a poem called 'Tense Christmas'. / X

Brian Bilston on X: 23rd December: a poem concerning the inadvisability of playing board games with your family at Christmas. #SantanicVerses / X

Odds and Sods – Brian Bilston's Poetry Laboetry

Brian Bilston on X: Today's advent calendar poem ties into the centenary year of Eliot's Prufrock. It's called Prufrock's Christmas. / X

Brian Bilston on X: It's publication day for my latest collection - And So This is Christmas - a bunch of poems about … well, Christmas (sorry to mention that word in

And so This Is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems (Audible Audio Edition): Brian Bilston, Brian Bilston, Picador: Books

Brian Bilston on X: 1 December: A poem about the school nativity. # SantanicVerses / X

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Brian Bilston - Here's a poem entitled 'Anthem for Doomed