Brian Bilston on How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside - Book Club

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #180 - How To Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside - Rich talks to the Banksy of poetry (though he’s happy to be seen in the video, so that blows that), Brian Bilston (if that is his real name) about his career in poetry and his latest collection How To Lay an Egg With a Horse Inside. They chat about where this fantastic title came from and the probable obliviousness of its creator, how Twitter used to be a great place to post creative content and be inspired by others, how the book is a sarcastic but also inspirational look at the creation of poetry, whether AI will ever take the place of writers and most importantly where we get our crazy ideas from.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ratfans, thanks for downloading my podcast. Do check out Rich and Alley's Craven News Round on YouTube.
0:07.0	It's really good. Have some fun with that. Herring, 1967.
0:12.0	Some bad news. I have a medical issue, which I will discuss at some point later.
0:17.0	Substack paid subscribers know about it. You get all the down low if you pay to
0:22.2	subscribe on substack. But it does mean that there's a procedure going on in June, which will mean
0:28.1	I think I have to cancel the Leicester Square Theatre gigs on the 1st and 8th of July. Hopefully
0:33.5	everything else will still be going on, the Droitwich gig, which is sold out. I'm doing stand-up gigs at St. Albans on the 7th of June, along with Katie Wilkins, my beautiful wife, in the Roman Theatre.
0:47.5	And they've just added an extra show to that.
0:51.3	So there's a later show with lots of tickets available.
0:54.0	I'd love to see you there. If you can get to St. Albans on the Sunday night. I'm very much hoping that show. We'll still go ahead. I think it should. And hopefully everything will be all right for the Edinburgh Fringe. You can also get details of the tickets for that. Richardhering.com slash Rahalastapa. I'll start booking guests soon, but, Kay, you know, whoever it is, it's going to be good. And it should, the podcast should be going out for the rest of the year as well. So you will be able to hear them at home if you can't get to the Edinburgh Fringe. But everything's okay. Don't worry about me. It should be all right.
1:29.7	But if you can support me in any way, either by coming to a gig or becoming a badger or a
1:34.3	sub-spaq subscriber, then that would be quite useful in the short term. All right, thanks for
1:41.3	listening. Enjoy this podcast. Do tell your friends. Goodbye.
1:48.1	Hello and welcome to another Rahalistaba Book Club. Today, I am this week. I have been reading
1:54.1	How to Lay an Egg Inside with a Horse inside, not inside a horse, by Brian Bilston, who joins us now.
2:00.4	Hello, Brian. Hello, Brian.
2:01.6	Hello, Richard.
2:02.9	Lovely to see you.
2:04.4	And yeah, well, it's fact incredible to see you because in every photo I've seen of you,
2:10.0	you've been, you've hid your face away.
2:12.2	You'd like the bankruptcy of poetry in that it's quite easy to find out who you are,
2:19.5	but that spoils the fun, I would say.
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