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Claimant
Paul Birtill
We got talking in a bar
and I took her back to my flat.
I suppose I was trying to impress her,
and told her I was a published author,
wrote poetry and plays, mentioned that
several had been staged at London theatres,
and that my poems had been in national newspapers.
'You're on the dole,' she said, pointing at my UB40
on the mantelpiece.
Paul Birtill was born in Walton, Liverpool, in 1960. He moved to London in his early twenties when he began writing, and apart from a brief period in Glasgow, has lived there ever since. His poems appear regularly in national newspapers, magazines and literary journals and he has read them on national radio and at poetry venues nationwide. He has published a number of collections on the Hearing Eye imprint including the best-selling Terrifying Ordeal and Collected Poems 1987-2010.
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