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This is pretty powerful. A poem with a twist called "Refugees" (Original Post) A HERETIC I AM Mar 2023 OP
K&R & thanks! tblue37 Mar 2023 #1
Get thee to the greatest pAge malaise Mar 2023 #2
WOW BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 #3
Thank you for the clever verse. nt Atticus Mar 2023 #4
Brian Bilston has been described as the poet laureate of Twitter Emrys Mar 2023 #5
Thanks for this malaise Mar 2023 #6

Emrys

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5. Brian Bilston has been described as the poet laureate of Twitter
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:29 PM
Mar 2023

That's his pen name, his real one is Paul Millicheap.

He wrote "Refugees" in 2016. Here's an extended BBC profile of him from that year: 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter'

Here's another of his:



Here's his website: https://brianbilston.com/

And here's his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/brian_bilston

I've given his collections You Took the Last Bus Home, Diary of a Somebody and Alexa, what is there to know about love? to my serious poetry buff wife on successive Christmases, and she's loved them.

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