Poem – Refugees by Brian Bilston

Read top-to-bottom as normal, his piece says refugees “are not welcome here”, calls on them to “go back to where they came from” and says “a place should only belong to those who are born there”.

But the poet adds a small request at the end of his poem: “Now read from bottom-to-top”. And the results are really something else…

Refugees by Brian Bilston