“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'

Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness - Edwin Morgan

There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)

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

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea - Thomas Gray, 'Elegy written in a county church yard'

Slowly and sadly we laid him down, from the field of his fame fresh and gory; we carved not a line, and we raised not a stone - but left him alone with his glory. - Charles Wolfe, 'The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna'

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'

Herbert takes on the major forms of ode and elegy, adding satire, comedy and the ancient Scottish tradition of extended insult, as well as modes still undefined. - Sean O'Brien