![]() Once the reading habit had restored itself, I spent every spare moment with my nose in a book. It was Stephen King who helped me fall back in love with reading: great thick slabs of books crammed with horror, suspense and swearing. Who were your literary heroes and influences as you were growing up?Īs is the case for many teenage boys, I stopped reading altogether when I was about thirteen and didn’t pick up a book in anger, boredom or earnest for about three years. His first novel, Diary of a Somebody, was published this year and is laugh out loud funny, clever and a must read. Brian's first collection of poetry You Took the Last Bus Home was published by Unbound. He won the 2015 Great British Write Off poetry prize for a poem disguised in a Venn diagram. In 2014 he became the first person to retain the title of Pipe Smoker of the Year and, over the years, he has won numerous awards for cycling proficiency, first aid, and general tidiness. Very little is known about him other than the fragments of information revealed on social media: his penchant for tank tops, his enjoyment of Vimto, his dislike of Jeremy Clarkson. What techniques do you use to get started on a new poem? Share them with us below.Brian Bilston is a poet clouded in the pipe smoke of mystery. Sometimes you can start writing whatever comes to your head and worry about the formatting later. Sometimes you don't need to have a specific plan. Does it have a rhyming pattern that it follows?.Do you want it to have long lines? Short lines?.Are you going to give it a surprise ending?.Is it going to be a long poem? Short poem?.Once you have an idea for your poem, it's time to begin planning it: ![]()
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