Paul Millicheap (born 14 June 1970), who writes as Brian Bilston, is a British poet and author.
Born in Birmingham, England, he studied at the University of Wales, Swansea, before entering the publishing industry as a marketing manager, notably for John Wiley in Oxford.
[1] Using the pseudonym Brian Bilston, he began publishing short and pithy, often humorous, poems on Twitter, which were then spread widely on social media.
[2][3] The poet Ian McMillan described Bilston as "a laureate for our fractured times",[4] and he has been compared to Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash.
[7] He has been called "the Banksy of the poetry world";[8] in publicity photographs promoting his speaking tours, he hides his face behind a book.