With pithy and highly entertaining creations such as Early Morning Love Poem and powerful and moving poems such as Refugees, its no surprise that Brian Bilston has been dubbed the Poet Laureate of Twitter and the Banksy of the poetry world. A former marketing manager in publishing, Bilston didnt begin to publish poetry until the social media age was well under way. Not for him the long narratives of Byron or Eliot: Twitter is the perfect medium. Visit his website and click on About Brian, meanwhile, and you will simply be told: I write poems. Bilston will be treating LitFest to a smorgasbord from his collections, which include You Took the Last Bus Home; Alexa, What is There to Know About Love?; and Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems. He is also the author of the novel Diary of a Somebody. His new book of poetry for children, A Poem for Every Question, illustrated by Joe Berger, will be published in September.