Poetry corner

Almost 890,000 Tommies didn’t make it back home for tea in the First World War. An incredible and awful figure, which inspired Marion Fellows’ poignant poem. The 78-year-old, who lives in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire, with her husband Ken, says: “We’re fortunate that our family did not suffer casualties in either war.

“But my knowledge comes from listening to the tragic experiences of the elderly people I had the privilege of looking after.”