Days Like These, 9781035001651
Hardcover
A poem for every day: quirky, witty, and utterly charming.

Days Like These

An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems

$64.76

  • Hardcover

    544 pages

  • Release Date

    30 January 2023

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Summary

In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the Rubik’s Cube to the first appearance of the phrase, ‘the best thing since sliced bread’.

Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with friends, Days Like These: An alternative guide to …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035001651
ISBN-10:1035001659
Author:Brian Bilston
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:544
Release Date:30 January 2023
Weight:654g
Dimensions:217mm x 162mm x 40mm
About The Author

Brian Bilston

Brian Bilston has been described as Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate. With over 250,000 followers on social media, including J. K. Rowling, Roger McGough and Frank Cottrell Boyce, 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.

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