Choose Love
Evocative and insightful, Choose Love combines Davies' powerful verse with Horácek's breathtaking illustrations to explore the stories of those who have lost their homes fleeing war or conflict.
In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies’s text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave their homes and previous lives behind to face an unknown future.
Suffused with compassion and understanding, the work invites you to share in these stories in the hope of building greater awareness and empathy for the struggles faced by so many, and to choose love as our response.
For those who might have stopped listening, these poems are powerful enough to ignite new ways of thinking and feeling. Personal and profound refugee stories highlight how we as individuals can make positive change. The poems are complex and powerful and leave a lasting impression on readers. Themes of survival, love, hope and the kindness of strangers are woven seamlessly through the poems. At times it makes for uncomfortable reading, but those emotions contribute to the outstanding nature of the collection. Each poem stands alone, but also works as a collection to build a bigger and fuller picture witha good variety of poetic styles and techniques. The collection acts as a reminder that refugees and migrants heard about in politics and on the news are real people with real stories from a range of perspectives.