Chichester poet Terry Timblick pools three decades of poetry

“Covid-19 hasn’t prompted me to write virus-specific poetry but it has spurred the collection of 30 years of poems into a book on behalf of Save the Children, confronted daily by a new mountain of misery and need,” says Terry.

Terry says he got a bit serious about the rhyme-or-blank arts as a student in creative writing at Bishop Otter College (now University of Chichester). Encouraged by lecturers Vicki Feaver and Hugh Dunkerley, his subjects varied from a leopard, squirrel and buskers to liberated Prague. Limericks and Japanese haiku enriched the mix.