Choose Love by Nicola Davies and Petr Horáček italian a sentiment echoed by Edward

a sentiment echoed by Edward Thomas and Emily Dickinson

with the reader aware (just enough) of multiple voices

If these are poems of witness

he was what Rilke called "exposed"

Rather like Samuel Beckett’s Malone differentiated one experience from another ‘in the outcry without’ so Rushmer’s poetry offers the reader a ‘sky unloaded of its ghosts

Choose Love by Nicola Davies and Petr Horáček italian a sentiment echoed by EdwardChoose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. The core of the collection was written in 2018 as part of a project with the charity Refugee Trauma Initiative. With the permission of both individual refugees and aid workers, RTI shared with Nicola a number of true and poignant stories which were then used as the basis for short form poems. Over the following years Nicola has added to this core of