Fourth & Walnut

By Jeremy Over

by Jonathan Wooding 28th February 2025

Jeremy Over won first prize in the 2002 BBC Wildlife Poetry Competition with ‘Whip Tim Kelly’, from the curiously-titled Deceiving Wild Creatures. This is how it starts:

      Bipple-be-witsy-diddle 

      One, two, three, four, six, 

      Qu’est ce qu’il dit? 

      Ra-vi-ol-i 

      Qu’est ce qu’il dit? 

      Po-ta-to chip