Profile: Terry O'Connor

About This Author

A retired academic and archaeologist, Terry O’Connor lives in Burley-in-Wharfedale, where he reads, writes and gardens. He writes essays in order to try out ideas, and sometimes those essays join up and become chapters of a book. Terry views poetry as a form of yoga for the mind, keeping it focussed but flexible, and admits to influences ranging from Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy to John Cooper Clarke. When not nesting clauses or seeking a rhyme for ‘orange’, Terry likes classical music, walking and birdsong, dislikes hypocrisy and celery, spends too much time on Twitter and talks to any available cat.