“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'

How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares. - Chidiock Tichborne 'Tichborne's Elegy'

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. - Ben Jonson 'Song To Celia'

'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight' Christopher Marlowe, 'Hero and Leander'

Trenches of night between us ... - 'War History', Sam Hunt

The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 'Paradise Lost'

Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'