Paul Birtill
Paul Birtill was born in Walton, Liverpool in 1960 and is half Irish. He moved to London in his early twenties and apart from a brief period in Glasgow has lived there ever since. He writes plays as well as verse, one of which was short listed for the Verity Bargate Award.
| Paul Birtill's Collected Poems comprises his first three publications, Terifying Ordeal, So Far So Bad, and Rats Getting Close, plus new poems. |
 Collected Poems 1987-2003 ISBN 1870841913 £10.99 |
 Rats Getting Close ISBN 1870841786 £4.00 |
This pamphlet is Paul Birtill's third collection of poems. "Each word is picked to be immediately arresting and nothing is wasted. Strangely, though, the absence of the performer as you read does not diminish the poems' strength, and their humour and uncompromising nature shine through." Daniel Paddington, Time Out |
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So Far So Bad is Paul Birtill's second full collection of poems.
Birtill covers his favourite themes
of death, relationships and mental illness with his usual brand of
dark humour and deep-veined irony - definitely not for the
faint-hearted. "A kind of anti-Laureate who makes Philip Larkin sound life affirming" Robert Lloyd Parry, Ham & High "His stark and hard-hitting verse skillfully echoes the neuroses of 90's life" Irish Post "Serious and deadpan, and then suddenly, incongruously comic" Daniel Paddington, Time Out |
 So Far So Bad ISBN 1870841670 £6.00 |
 Terrifying Ordeal ISBN 1870841557 £6.00 |
"Paul Birtill's rough tough poems reflect the terrifying ordeal of
physical and metaphysical life in 1990's British cities with uncompromising
humour and unimposing insight." Michael Horovitz "Bleedin' fabulous" John Cooper Clarke "This collection includes a cross-section of Paul's bitingly black humour (he once had a screenplay rejected by the BBC on the grounds that it needed to contain at least some redemption)." Kiron Reid, Liberator "Darkly comic pieces" New Statesman |
ISBN 1870841433
£3.00
This pamphlet was first published by Hearing Eye in 1996 in the Torriano Meeting House Poetry Pamphlet series, and was reprinted in 1997. While the full collection is available, the original pamphlet is also still available.
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Paul Birtill has his own website at www.paulbirtill.com
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