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Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems
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Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems

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A brilliant way to brighten each day. 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 the year in 366 poems will take the blues out of Monday, flatten the Wednesday hump, and amplify that Friday feeling.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateOct 13, 2022
ISBN9781035001675
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems
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Brian Bilston

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

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