SOME OF THESE POEMS HAVE APPEARED
IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS:

The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Express, Morning Star, Liverpool Daily Post, Irish Post, Peace News, The Spectator, New Statesman, The Author, London Magazine, Outposts, Acumen, The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, The SHOp, Orbis, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry and Audience, The Wolf, Envoi, Poetry Nottingham, The Frogmore Papers, Spokes, The Echo Room, Scratch, Pennine Platform, Psychopoetica, Braquemard, Gargoyle, Brixton Poets, Tops, Shrike, Rising, The Eggbox, Ape, Trespass, South Bank Poetry, Aisle 16, Ravage, The Liberator, Baby Bubble, Still, Poetry Seen, Unexpected Item, Dial 174, Unpublished, Le Monstre, Poetry Street, The Delinquent, Krax, 14 Magazine, PenPusher, Poetry On The Buses, Poetry On The Internet, and were included in the anthologies: Velocity, In The Company Of Poets, Oral, Saltpetre, Reigning Cats and Dogs, Out From Beneath The Boot, Poems For The Retired Nihilist, Artefiction, The Real Survivors, In Dark Times, Well Versed, The Dead Good Poets Society,

BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, BBC London Live, Resonance FM, Express FM, Radio 100 Amsterdam,

London International Film School, Ben Gregor, Omnia Films.

SELECTED COMMENTS:

"Time and again his dark humour hits the mark"
Financial Times

"Bleedin' fabulous"
John Cooper Clarke

"His stark and hard-hitting verse skillfully echoes the neuroses of life"
   Irish Post

"A kind of anti-Laureate who makes Philip Larkin sound life affirming"
   Ham & High

"Serious and deadpan, and then suddenly, incongruously comic"
Time Out

"Paul Birtill's rough tough poems reflect the terrifying ordeal of physical and   metaphysical life in British cities with uncompromising humour and unimposing insight"
Michael Horovitz

"Is Paul Birtill the country’s most melancholic poet? One suspects that there can be few challengers"
Liverpool Daily Post

"Darkly comic pieces"
New Statesman

"The master of deadpan, tightly constructed and comically morbid stand-up poetry"
Poets On Fire