All’s Well That Ends

PUBLISHED AUGUST 29, 2022.

Paul Birtill’s new collection is All’s Well That Ends.

BESTSELLER

Poetry doesn’t normally sell,
but mine might because I intend
to embark on a series of bizarre
motiveless murders on and around
Hampstead Heath. Poetry doesn’t
normally sell, but mine might.

Paul Birtill, from New and Selected Poems (Hearing Eye 2016)

Paul Birtill was born in Walton, Liverpool in 1960 and lives in London. He has published a number of collections with Hearing Eye, including New and Selected Poems, and, with Wrecking Ball Press, Bad News . He is also an accomplished playwright and several of his plays have been staged at London theatres, including Squalor, which was short-listed for the prestigious Verity Bargate award.

“Packed with short, sharp, witty and irreverent observations.” – John Healy

“Makes me laugh and feel depressed at the same time, and that’s a rare gift.” – John Cooper Clarke

“Time and again his dark humour hits the mark.” – Harry Eyres, Financial Times

“His stark and hard-hitting verse skilfully echoes the neuroses of life.” – Irish Post