Notices by Brian Bilston (brianbilston@mastodon.online)

Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action.

Today UK authors are protesting against this theft.

Copyright law is clear: to use a creator’s copyrighted work, you need to get permission and agree payment.

#DoTheWriteThing

Here’s a poem called ‘Prayer for Uninteresting Times’.

Happy World Poetry Day to all who celebrate. If you’re interested in writing poetry yourself, I hope this poem will be of some use.

Here’s a poem called ‘From the Encyclopedia of Alternative Facts’.

If you’re struggling to write a poem for a loved one for Valentine’s Day, take heart: even the great poets had to start somewhere.

Early morning love poem.

Today’s poem is called ‘The Question’.

With apologies to Nat King Cole (and Irving Gordon), this is called ‘Unelectable’.

Fall
 
how I love to catch
the falling leaves
in autumn
 
      I
sit

and
 
wait

beneath

the
trees

until
    
I’ve

           cautumn

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.

It’s UK publication day for ‘Let Sleeping Cats Lie’, my collection of poems about pets.

It’s for children, aged between 7 and 95, and available to order through all the usual bookshop places:
https://linktr.ee/brianbilston

And a few signed copies available here:
https://linktr.ee/letsleepingcatslie

@AzureArmageddon @clacke Thank you!

@shom Ah, thanks for sharing this story with me. I’m honoured to have helped to brighten the day in his memory.

@cloudhopper I feel very sorry for her. She deserves better than that.

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

Some news! I have a new book of poems for children coming out in September – Let Sleeping Cats Lie.

It’s a collection of poems about pets (cats, dogs, rabbits, snakes, blue whales etc) and is available to preorder (should you want to, that is).

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/brian-bilston/let-sleeping-cats-lie-pet-poems/9781035050550

Here’s a short poem about the inadvisability of spoiling ballot papers.

Here’s a poem in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
It’s called ‘Queueing for an Ice Cream’.

As if it wasn’t enough for it to be Monday morning, some students are also facing their GSCE English paper today and the terror of the ‘unseen poem’.

Wishing them the very best of luck with it.

I’m fed up with people pointing out all the mistakes in my poetry so I’ve written them this poem; it’s called ‘Pedant’s’.