Comedy poetry show by poet Brian Bilston at The Fire Station on High Street West.
Brian Bilston brings his comedy poetry show How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside to The Fire Station on Thursday 12 November, with the performance starting at 7:30pm. It's a night of comedy and laughter, and the title gives you a fair idea of the kind of thing he does.
Bilston is one of the UK's most popular poets, with more than 500,000 followers on social media and a string of sell-out shows across the country. He's published several bestselling collections, including You Took the Last Bus Home, Alexa, what is there to know about love? and Days Like These. His novel Diary of a Somebody was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and he's also written poetry for younger readers. In 2025 he released Sounds Made by Humans, an album of his poetry set to music with The Catenary Wires.
He's often called the 'Poet Laureate of Twitter' and described as 'part John Cooper-Clarke, part Frank Sidebottom'. Very little is known about him beyond the fragments he lets slip on social media: his penchant for tank tops, his fondness for Vimto and his dislike of Jeremy Clarkson, which has inspired poems of its own. The show itself is billed as an evening of comedy and laughter.
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Tickets are £23.00, and the show runs at The Fire Station on High Street West, SR1 3HA, Sunderland, on Thursday 12 November at 7:30pm.
