"The Banksy of poetry" Brian Bilston has announced a live show at Dublin's Ambassador Theatre on October 18.

The poet and writer previously announced performances at Belfast's Mandela Hall on October 17 and Derry's Millennium Forum on October 20.

🎙️Brian Bilston, the 'Banksy of poetry' and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate, has announced a show at The Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, on October 18th, 2025, following a string of sell-out shows nationwide.

Tickets on sale Friday at 10am. pic.twitter.com/Cx8GNhBvtw

— MCD Productions (@mcd_productions) March 20, 2025

Bilston has published several collections of poetry, including You Took the Last Bus Home in 2016, Alexa, what is there to know about love? in 2021 and, most recently, Let Sleeping Cats Lie in 2024.

His next collection comes in the form of an album, with his poems set to music by indie-rock group The Catenary Wires. Titled Sounds Made by Humans, the record will launch on May 9.

In 2019, he branched out from poetry with his novel Diary of a Somebody, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award that same year

Bilston, real name Paul Millicheap, began posting short poetry to social media, particularly on X - then Twitter - in the early 2010s.

He currently boasts 400,000 followers across social media and became known as "The Poet Laureate of Twitter".

Ticket information can be found here for Dublin, Derry and Belfast.